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Projects, publications, news, events, insights and articles about work to ensure the mining industry provides environmental sustainability, local value addition, fair benefit sharing and respect for the rights of Indigenous Peoples, local communities and small-scale producers.

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Towards inclusive and responsible mining

A programme of work on how IIED is facilitating dialogue and collaboration for a fair and accountable mining sector

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Understanding gender-based violence in critical mineral mining

Publication, 06 March 2025

Sign in a field pointing to a cobalt mine in the DRC

Critical minerals, international policy and a just energy transition

Event on 29 January 2025

Miners showing minerals.

Critical minerals and the just energy transition: opportunities and challenges

Active Project

Landscape with a mine and blue sky.

Can the net-zero transition offer a new dawn for Africa’s industrialisation?

Insight, 16 May 2024

An open-cast mine

Is overconsumption the ‘elephant in the room’ in the energy transition?

Insight, 09 May 2024

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Mapping community development requirements in the mining sector

Active Project

Two scale pans, one containing gold powder.

Mining contract transparency improves local planning in Mali

Insight, 22 April 2024

A sign with the words "El desierto como cuerpo herido"

Energy transition, community fragmentation and territorial justice: an interview with Sonia Ramos

Article, 17 April 2024

A poster depicting the environmental and social costs of mineral extraction.

A just energy transition needs more than benefit-sharing: a view from the Atacama Salt Flat

Insight, 09 April 2024

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Timing your safeguards in mining

Publication, 28 March 2024

Men and women dig for gold in an uncovered pit.

Artisanal gold mining in Mali: making gold shine for the people of Gouandiaka

Insight, 26 March 2024

A man thrashes rice in a field, with mountains in the background.

The push for clean energy: how nickel mining expansion is impacting agrarian economies in Indonesia

Insight, 12 September 2023

Man carrying a bag over his next next to a truck full of bags.

Formalising artisanal cobalt mining in the DRC: much work remains

Insight, 25 July 2023

Man walks by a vegetable plot

Civil society improvements to land tenure governance in Guinea

Active Project

A woman stands to speak at a community meeting, surrounded by other people.

Mining and Community Development Agreements: a panacea for community justice in Uganda?

Insight, 29 November 2022

Man smiling broadly holds up to the camera a fragment of gold between his thumb and finger

Artisanal and small-scale mining in Honduras: fostering responsible practices and supply chains

Event on 05 May 2022

Two men walk behind a herd in an arid landscape.

Navigating the challenges of land-based investment: new blog series

News, 31 March 2022

Fenced working site in a field. There are workers and cars parked and a mineral exploratoion drilling rig

Mineral exploration goes unchecked as demand escalates

Insight, 16 February 2022

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People and nature first: safeguards needed in mining exploration

Publication, 16 February 2022

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Sharing the benefits of hydropower to improve displaced people’s livelihoods

Publication, 21 January 2022

Two men on the side of a mountain; one bends over to pick up two sacks, the other carries them on his shoulders

Promoting better policy and citizen agency in the mining sector

Active Project

A group of women stand and sit around a table discussing and adding information to a large piece of paper

Scaling up CRAFT and Fairmined initiatives for responsible gold in Honduras

Archived Project

Two men carry a tray on the muddy side of a stretch of water, while another man, bending down, sorts through small stones

Mining cobalt better

Insight, 29 September 2021

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Islands of responsibility? Corporate sourcing of artisanal cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Publication, 22 September 2021

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Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM)

Extractive industries

Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) project