📽️ As we continue working to #MakeMercuryHistory . We are pleased to share highlights from the recent visit by #Uganda ’s Government officials at the #Kayonza Mine Site.
Supported: Global Environment Facility (GEF) Led: UN Environment Programme Executed: IMPACT w/ Ministry of Energy Uganda National Environment Management Authority (NEMA)

planetGOLD Programme Mongolia National Project Manager Mr. Altanbagana Bayarsaikhan delivered presentation on Project Progress and Outcome and highlighted significance of mercury-free processing systems that established by project in Mongolia's Selenge province. ArtisanalGoldCouncil

СЗХ /FRC/ 🇲🇳, Precious Metal Traders National Association, and planetGOLD Programme Mongolia jointly organized MONGOLIA JEWELLERY AND METAL EXPO for third year between April 12-14 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia to promote precious metals and jewellery sector in Mongolia. ArtisanalGoldCouncil

👏Mongolian Metal and Jewellery Expo is going effective!
📌Please stop by planetGOLD Programme Mongolia project's booth and take a virtual tour of the project's mercury-free processing systems in Mandal soum and Tunkhel village, Selenge province, Mongolia. ArtisanalGoldCouncil

📌'Mongolian Metal and Jewellery Expo' is ready to start. Please stop by planetGOLD Programme Mongolia's booth to learn about its progress and outcome. We jointly organizing expo for 3rd year jointly with СЗХ /FRC/ 🇲🇳 and Precious Metal Traders National Association ArtisanalGoldCouncil

Today's visit by #Ugandan officials to the #Kayonza Mine Site marks a crucial step towards reducing mercury use in artisanal gold mining and improving the lives of local mining communities. #MakeMercuryHistory planetGOLD Programme Global Environment Facility (GEF) UN Environment Programme

#HappeningNow : 'As government, we must address how ASGM will access alternatives to mercury without getting them out of business. We shall ensure enabling laws and appropriate funding to support our ASGM. We must also be serious about mercury use.' - Hon. Okeyo Peter

🌍Happening Now! Uganda's Government officials, including Members of Parliament, are visiting the #Kayonza Mine Site today as part of the planetGOLD Uganda Project, which is working to reduce mercury use in artisanal gold mining. #MakeMercuryHistory

📌planetGOLD Programme Mongolia will held Mongolian Jewelry and Metal Forum for 3rd year on April 11 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, in collaboration with СЗХ /FRC/ 🇲🇳 and Precious Metal Traders National Association. Representatives of project will deliver presentations ArtisanalGoldCouncil

Mongolian Jewelry and Metal Forum launching. planetGOLD Programme Mongolia displaying sector-specific policy briefs and other knowledge products.We trying to distribute digital versions of products over paper-based materials to contribute to environment's sustainability@artisanal_gold

🇨🇴 #Colombia | Women miners in Colombia inspire us! 🙌🏾Today, during the 2nd Meeting of Women Miners👷‍♀️ for Sustainable Development, 16 #women from different nodes of the network shared their experiences and good practices on how to advance financial inclusion in the #ASGM sector.

Gold mining reduced this Amazon rainforest to a moonscape. Now miners are restoring it

Story on NPR about restoration pilot project in devastated mining zone in Peru

Project led by Pure Earth

CINCIA,Miles Silman,Simeon Tegel,Luis E. Fernandez

npr.org/sections/goats…

📌Peru takes a significant step towards cleaner artisanal mining.

 The government, with planetGOLD support, inaugurates the first mercury-free gold processing plant in Piura, benefiting miners and the environment. Learn more: planetgold.org/peruvian-gover… #MakeMercuryHistory

📚Education to prevent mercury contamination.

Volunteers from the Environmental University Network #RUA of Puno and Juliaca visited the pilot plant at DIRECCIÓN REGIONAL DE ENERGÍA Y MINAS PUNO that teaches how small-scale miners in the region can process gold and #MakeMercuryHistory .

📌Perú da un paso significativo hacia una minería artesanal más limpia.

Se inaugura la primera planta para procesar oro sin mercurio en #Piura , en beneficio de mineros, seleccionadoras de mineral y el medio ambiente. Más información: bit.ly/3PT2TlY
#MakeMercuryHistory

📌 planetGOLD Programme Mongolia project is going to organize 'Mongolian Jewelry and Metal Expo and Forum' for 3rd year on April 11-14, 2024 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, in collaboration with СЗХ /FRC/ 🇲🇳 and Precious Metal Traders National Association. 👇 ArtisanalGoldCouncil

planetGOLD Kenya promotes the empowerment and participation of women in the mining sector through capacity building of women cooperatives in business management, & financial inclusion. The capacity building is being facilitated by
Kenya Institute of Business Training& TAC members

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This week in Tarkwa # 🇬🇭, the GEF-funded planetGOLD Ghana project partnered with Solidaridad to train Artisanal Smallscale Gold Miners on the CRAFT Code.

The training was used to promote the adoption and application of the modules of the CRAFT Code.

# MakeMercuryHistory