G.Yondon, Minister of Mining and Heavy Industry, met with representatives of the Mongolian Artisanal Mining National Federation, exchanged information on the current legal environment, finance and eco...
A Journey from our Humble Beginnings
Travelling back to long-distant times, when the autumn winds gently stroked your cheeks, the land on which the Ar Naimgan deposit sits was full of colour. Frozen...
Representatives from the Ministry of Mining and Industry, the Bank of Mongolia and the SAM Project elaborated on the state of ASM in Mongolia at the International Forum on Responsible Minerals Supply...
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...