The 5th meeting of the ICGLR-OECD-UN GoE multi-stakeholder forum was held on 2-3 May 2013 – OECD Conference Centre, Paris, France This multi-stakeholder forum was held to facilitate constructive discussion around workable approaches for due diligence implementation in the tin, tantalum and tungsten (3Ts), and gold supply chain. DOWNLOAD THE GOLD SUPPLEMENT. The gold implementation programme was formally launched during this meeting....

Excerpt of an article published in Global, The Global Journal, while reporting on the final negotiations on mercury convention in Geneva.   In a snapshot :  Mercury is used in gold production. Jewelry and Watch brands aim to purchase « more ethically and environmentally sourced gold » in the future.  Two type of sourcing : large scale mine and small scale mine. Every year 2’000 tonnes of mercury are emmitted...

Legal or not — almost all diamonds pass through this one Indian city.   SURAT, India — The Gujarat Mail is just another red-eye train. Twelve powder-blue passenger cars crisscrossing, like so many hundreds of others, India’s northwestern breadbasket through the dark of night. At five minutes past two, the Mail begins its four-hour journey, lumbering south from Surat to Mumbai. Inside, the third-class cabins are equal...

Africa’s abundant natural resources have attracted significant investments in recent years, yet the experience of African states in translating these investments into equitable and sustainable economic growth remains varied. New trends and empirical data are leading policy makers, development practitioners and scholars to reassess the explanatory strength of various theoretical frameworks that address the relationship between resource...

Yesterday, over 300 health and safety experts and mining and metals executives brought the ICMM 2012 Health and Safety Conference in Santiago, Chile to a close. The three-day conference saw over 60 speakers from ICMM member companies discuss topics such as leadership, worker health programs, community health management, safety in operations and eliminating fatalities. “The last three days have been a successful exercise in sharing lessons...

In La Rinconada, Peru, the highest human habitation in the world, legions of miners seek gold and one young girl seeks an education. For as long as Senna Ochochoque can remember, she has worked to support her family. She began at four, helping prepare food that her family would hawk about town, when her father was too sick to pick rock in the gold mines. She would accompany him to market three hours away, bumping down mountain roads in a...