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Projects, publications, news, events, insights and articles about work on mineral extraction - and 'critical minerals' essential for the green energy transition - highlighting the need to mitigate the effect on local communities.

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Energy and minerals in Greenland: Governance, corporate responsibility and social resilience

Publication, 01 June 2015

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Drilling deeper into public opinion

Publication, 01 March 2014

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Meaningful community engagement in the extractive industries: Stakeholder perspectives and research priorities

Publication, 01 February 2016

A cement factory

COVID-19 and global economic ordering: radical shift or more of the same?

Insight, 24 April 2020

Artisanal miners of Mali

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

Insight, 08 October 2019

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

Participants in a focus group for smallholder farmers and land administrators in Mali (Photo: Emily Polack/IIED)

What makes community engagement meaningful in the extractive industries?

Insight, 14 March 2016

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

Miners work deep within a tunnel at Nsangano gold mine in the Geita District (Photo: copyright Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)

Gold for life

Insight, 24 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

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

Extractive industry workers are pictured on a beach; a new report recommends that transparency initiatives need to be more inclusive and relevant to local needs for communities most affected by oil, gas or mining projects (Photo: iStockphoto.com/Getty Images)

Transparency: Giving local communities a window on the extractive industries

Insight, 28 May 2014

Photo: Farah Sevilla, Alyansa Tigil Mina

How extractive industries can address conflict and build trust with communities

News, 25 April 2013

Caspian Energy Initiative

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Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM)

Critical minerals