The comprehensive “The Survey of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining - 2016”, which details the scope of ASM activities and the sector’s economic contributions, was officially launched on March 14.
There was an estimated 40 million people working in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM)..Women represent a large percentage of the ASM workforce—40 to 50 per cent in Africa alone, in fact—working i...
In Phase 4 of the Sustainable Artisanal Mining (SAM) project, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in Mongolia (SDC), initiated and funded the development of ASM Knowledge Hub, a web-based pla...
A hot topic today in the world’s gold mining sector is artisanal gold mining. In our southern neighbor China, more than 9 million artisanal miners work in thecoal mining sector alone, producing 11 per...
Phase IV of the SAM project is to strengthen stakeholders in the gold supply chain. To achieve this objective, SAM believes that all partners in the supply chain must have the right facilities and exp...
Recently, Rajiv Gandhi's Production and Polytechnic College, which specializes in highly skilled jewellery professionals training, and is well-known for 52 years has opened its jewellers’ training roo...
A few days ago, the European Union (EU) announced that 17 countries which do not have a transparent tax system are on a black list, , this includesMongolia. Earlier, the EU had warned that Mongolia n...
From the 1990s to the early 2000s, Mongolia was hit by successive natural disasters that saw thousands of herders lose their income, leaving many with little option but to mine illegally.
The modern era of Mongolia’s mining sector marked its 95th anniversary in November, commemorating the first state takeover of the Nalaikh mine in 1922.