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🗞️ NEW: Often when artisanal & small-scale miners produce #ResponsibleGold, there are still barriers to accessing int'l markets.
⬇️ Our new report w/@ImpactFacility explores how #ASGM Market Access Initiatives look for ways around these challenges.
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ALT Green backdrop with a cover image of the report Overcoming Practical Barriers for Integrating Responsible Artisanal and Small-Scale Mined Gold into International Supply Chains, with gold arrows and the text: Explore the new report
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The #DRC, home to over half of the world’s reserves of cobalt, supplied 95,000 tonnes (almost 70% of global supply) in 2020 theafricareport.com/170678/d…
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#Corruption is not a victimless crime. 10 years ago today 700 mine workers in #Kolwezi #Congo lost their jobs and 32,000 residents lost crucial health & education benefits due to Dan #Gertler' s criminal acts. Time for justice. #DRC
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Proud to have my colleague Cyrus demonstrate our mercury-reducing processing equipment to a team of the ICGLR. #ImpactFacility is leasing this equipment to ASMOs committed to the improvement of production practices. More info at: impactfacility.com #ASM #MercuryReduction.
A team from the ICGLR Mineral Audit Committee visiting one of the outstanding ASM sites in Mwanza, looking at transitioning from mercury use to mercury free technologies in line with the Minamata Convesion. #mercuryfreegoldmining
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