The dollar and gold are related. As the amount of gold citizens and enterprises submit grows, the exchange rate of the dollar drops, leading to lower prices on imported goods, which is a boon for peop...
After nine years of valuable service as Project Advisor with SDC’s Sustainable Artisanal Mining (SAM) Project, Patience Singo is bidding farewell to Mongolia.
With committed and dedicated nature Tuya Damdinjamts, spent her young age and all her energy to improve the legal and social environment for unorganized and illegal miners so-called “ninja” not only f...
The SAM Project’s leadership team conducted a two-day trip to Dundgobi aimag and Khuld soum, where they met with governors, government officials and flour-spar artisanal miners. Khuld soum has high-qu...
Samdan Choijiljav was her parents’ seventh daughter. She spent most of her childhood in Baatsagaan soum in Bayankhongor aimag. In 1997, she began working and selling dairy products in a shop in the ai...
The February 1 meeting of the SDC Sustainable Artisanal Mining (SAM) Project’s Steering Committee meeting focused on the findings and recommendations of the project’s mid-term review, 2016 results and...
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has positive national socio-economic benefits through its support for local development, job creation, and poverty reduction. In line with international practice...
The Ministry of Mining and Heavy Industry, Mineral Resources and Petroleum Agency of Mongolia, and Sustainable Artisanal Mining (SAM) Project of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation succes...