Sustainable markets

Natural resource management

Pages tagged with

Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM)

82 entries

A man stands as he speaks to a seated group of people surrounding him

How to get the most out of dialogue

Insight, 03 June 2020

A canopy above the entrance to a mine. Written on the canopy is 'Bienvenidos a Marmato" - welcome to Marmato

Mining reforms have left Colombia’s artisanal miners behind

Insight, 15 April 2020

Artisanal miners of Mali

Mali’s new mining law: an improvement, but fails artisanal miners

Insight, 08 October 2019

Water and gravity are used to separate and, ultimately, leave the diamonds (Photo: James McQuilken/@J_McQuilken)

Sustainable development and artisanal mining: time to broaden the ‘blood diamonds’ conversation?

Insight, 03 December 2018

Rehema Peter Mushi mines red garnets and sapphires in Tanzania. She recently won a grant to purchase equipment (Photo: Magali Rochat/IIED)

IIED to host 3rd online artisanal and small-scale mining day

News, 02 March 2018

Artisanal and small-scale mining stakeholders in Tanzania explore solutions to key challenges (Photo: Steve Aanu/IIED)

Using dialogue to extract sustainable solutions for artisanal and small-scale mining

Insight, 26 February 2018

Pope Francis met with indigenous leaders, including Yesica Patiachi who is from the Harakbut people, one of the three main ethnic groups in the Madre de Dios region

On pilgrimage in Madre de Dios: starting a journey to sustainable artisanal mining

Insight, 07 February 2018

Miners from the Tanga region in northern Tanzania participating in discussions about how to make ASM in Tanzania more sustainable (Photo: Steve Aanu)

Mining dialogue paves the way for change

News, 05 February 2018

Dialogue participants visited ASM operations (Photo: Mkhululi Nkosilamandla Ncube)

Can ASM lead the Africa Mining Vision?

Insight, 07 December 2017

A woman miner holds a rough red garnet found at a mine in Tanzania. Tanzania's artisanal and small-scale miners are fuelled by determination and the hope to strike it big (Photo: Magali Rochat)

Four lessons on communicating ASM stories of change

Insight, 17 October 2017

François plants a young rosewood tree

Sapphire mines that become forests

Long read, 13 October 2017

View of the quarry

Small ventures, big hopes

Long read, 26 September 2017

Small-scale miners in Ghana

The golden practices that defy gloom

Long read, 11 September 2017

The Bekily sapphire site is located in the commune of Ambinany, in Toliara, bordering the National Park of Zombitse-Vohibasia (Photo: Andry Rabemanantsoa/GIZ PAGE Madagascar)

In pictures: Dialogues and pilot projects for better ASM governance in Madagascar

Insight, 15 March 2017

Sapphire pits to be rehabilitated in Anikilabo, shown during the site visit of the major of a local mining community, Ampasy Nahampoana (Photo: Andry Rabemanantsoa/GIZ PAGE Madagascar)

Dialogue and action in equal measure

Insight, 13 March 2017

Pits at Bekily sapphire mine in Toliara are on average 18 meters deep (Photo: Andry Rabemanantsoa/GIZ PAGE Madagascar)

Improving governance in Madagascar's artisanal and small-scale mining sector from the ground up

Active Project

Paul, a gold prospector in Burkina Faso (Photo: Ollivier Girard/CIFOR)

Six steps forward for African mining

Insight, 01 March 2017

IIED's Fitsum Weldegiorgis presents at the action dialogue on artisanal and small-scale mining in Tanzania (Photo: Steve Aanu)

'The time is right' for dialogue about sustainable ASM in Tanzania

Active Project

Women play a major role in the ASM sector in Ghana, as they do in all countries where ASM takes place. The dialogue meetings offered the chance to share ideas about improving working conditions and community wellbeing (Photo: Friends of the Nation)

New voices: Ghanaian miners, students and civil society representatives talk about ASM

News, 27 October 2016

Artisanal and small-scale miners in Madagascar show the dynamic nature of the sector (Photo: Fitsum Weldegiorgis/IIED)

Talking sustainable development in the troubled world of ASM

Insight, 25 October 2016

Workers at the Dakete Gold Mine explain health and safety procedures in a powdering station. The IIED dialogue aimed to engage key stakeholders, including mineworkers, in a conversation about the future of ASM mining in Ghana (Photo: Friends of the Nation)

ASM dialogue creates ambition for change in Ghana

Insight, 15 September 2016

Women from a mining community talk with Amina Tahiru, a member of the Learning and Leadership Group (Photo: Gabriella Flores)

In pictures: a dialogue for action on mining in Ghana

Insight, 06 September 2016

An artisanal miner

Ghana: on our way to participatory reform in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector

Active Project

Women including mining engineer Judith Akorfa Buaba (centre) employed at the Dakete mine, in Ghana (Photo: Gabriela Flores Zavala)

Can mining dig rural women out of poverty in Ghana?

Insight, 08 March 2016

Related tags

Extractive industries

Informal sector