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Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM)

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Mecati Forest, Mozambique: a group of charcoal producers clear trees and prepare to make charcoal. Each year more than eight million bags of charcoal are produced by Mozambique's informal sector (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)

The informal economy and sustainable development

Active Project

Collins Ade (washer, 17)

Voices from artisanal mining communities in Tarkwa-Nsuaem, Ghana

Article, 19 January 2016

Eighteen-year-old Maame Esi Rose, who washes ore to help her and two younger siblings survive, will contribute to the artisanal and small-scale mining sector dialogue in Ghana (Photo: IIED)

Talking mining in Ghana

News, 19 January 2016

A street vendor sells produce in Surabaya, Indonesia (Photo: Schristia, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Showcasing innovations in policy approaches to informality

Article, 21 July 2015

A collection of resources and images relating to the artisanal and small-scale mining sector compiled by IIED (Photos/images: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures and IIED)

A day of sharing ASM knowledge

Article, 25 June 2015

Employees work deep within a tunnel at the Nsangano Gold Mine, Mawemeru village in Geita District, Tanzania in March 2015 (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)

Laying the foundations for a dialogue series on artisanal and small-scale mining

Active Project

An illustration mapping the interdependent relationships within the ASM sector (Image: Scriberia)

Illustrating the ASM challenges

Article, 19 June 2015

Levocatus Saidi Bujiku has been working as an artisanal miner for about two years (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)

Gold mining: the search for common ground

Insight, 11 June 2015

Women crush and separate rocks containing gold ore for extraction at Nsangano Gold Mine, Mawemeru village, Geita, Tanzania (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)

Picturing the ASM space

Insight, 05 June 2015

IIED's ASM workshop brought together stakeholders from across the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia to share their experiences and perspectives (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)

Waking the lazy, sleepy giant

Insight, 21 May 2015

Employees work deep within a tunnel at the Nsangano Gold Mine, Mawemeru village in Geita District, Tanzania (Photo: copyright Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)

A shared long-term vision for ASM

Insight, 29 April 2015

A small-scale mine in Mawemeru village, Geita district, Tanzania (Photo: copyright Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)

A mine of information

Insight, 20 April 2015

The Zimbabwe Homeless People’s Federation secures houses, sanitation and land rights for members. Communication and participation are central to the way it works (Photo: Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI), Creative Commons via Flickr)

Do you have the power to influence your own life?

Insight, 06 March 2015

A small mining operation near Garies in the Western Cape, South Africa (Photo: jbdodane, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Stuck between a deposit and a hard place

Insight, 26 February 2015

A group of miners who are working the Kawa Ijen volcano in Java, Indonesia. The miners carry sulfur down the volcano and to the processing centre where the sulfur is weighed and the miner is paid (Photo: Adam Cohn, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Time to tell a new story about artisanal and small-scale mining: time for a new "indaba"

Insight, 11 February 2015

Miners pushing a cart out of a mine near the Bolivian town of Potosi. For centuries this area had the richest silver mines in South America. Today many of the mines are worked by local cooperatives, but conditions are still harsh (Photo Nyall & Maryanne, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Listen and learn: lessons from the small-scale mining sector

Insight, 05 February 2015

Artisanal and small-scale mining accounts for 20 per cent of world gold production (Photo: Travis Lupick, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Delivering solutions through multi-stakeholder dialogue

Active Project

Ancestral miners rush to find gold and platinum ore at a mine wall opened by medium-scale mining (Photo: Ronald de Hommel)

Informality and formalisation in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector

Insight, 12 November 2014

A panel discusses artisanal and small-scale mining at the Mining Indaba in Cape Town (Photo: Abbi Buxton/IIED)

Building bridges between the money and the many in mining

Insight, 11 February 2014

Small-scale miners dry ores in the process of gold mining in Geita, Tanzania (Photo: John Louis/Investing In Gold, Creative Commons)

Dialogues for a sustainable and productive artisanal and small-scale mining sector

Active Project

Small-scale gold miners in Madagascar. Photo: Global Environment Facility

IIED shines a light on small-scale mining

News, 05 March 2013

Traders take matooke to market

Resilient Dynamism? An informal word with leaders meeting in Davos

Insight, 22 January 2013

A smiling woman from Kenya sits beside her sewing machine.

Linking Worlds: linking ‘small-scale’ producers into large and formal markets

Article, 15 January 2013

Fairtrade and formalisation for small-scale miners

Insight, 18 February 2011

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