Numerous types of minerals are extracted in this fashion—gold, cassiterite, wolframite, colored gemstones, diamonds, cobalt, and even coal—and the production and commercialization of many of these min...

WASHINGTON, May 4, 2021 — A new World Bank and Pact report finds that better working conditions can improve productivity, health, and safety for the over 44 million artisanal miners across 80 countrie...

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...

Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: Artisanal and small-scale mining is a complex and diversified sector that includes poor informal individual miners seeking to eke out or supplement a subsistence live...

With the aim to provide technical support to the General Agency of Specialized Inspection (GASI) in their operations towards identifying the location of illegal miners and entities, documenting the vi...

We have interviewed the Head of Treasure Fund of the Bank of Mongolia Mrs. Erdenetuya about purchasing eco gold at the Bank of Mongolia.

SDC started implementing the "Sustainable Artisanal Mining" project in 2005, and now the project is in its final or fourth phase.

For fluorspar miners in Khentii aimag, who comprise the majority of the aimag’s artisanal and small-scale miners, trips to the Bor-Undur processing plant are both long and costly.

Mongolian government representatives experienced first-hand the best practices and lessons learned by their South American counterparts in the formalisation of the artisanal and small-scale mining (AS...