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Be sure to visit the Global Mercury Project Database where articles and reports about mercury in artisanal mining are available


Original GMP Proposal

GEF/UNDP/UNIDO - GMP Project Inception Document (April 2002)

Final GMP Reports
Summary report: Technical and socio-economic profiles of Global Mercury Project sites (May 2004)
Environmental and health assessments: Summary document (July 2006)
Report to UNEP on global impacts of mercury supply and demand in small-scale gold mining (Feb. 2007)
Review of mercury and cyanide uses in the artisanal gold mining (May 2007)
U.N. international guidelines on mercury management in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (June 2007)
Report on the policy and governance initiative (July 2007)
Evaluating and monitoring small scale gold mining and mercury use: Building a knowledge-base with satellite imagery and field work (Nov. 2007)
The role of fair trade for the mercury emissions reduction plan in ASM gold mining (Dec. 2007)
Summary of the results of the awareness campaign and technology demonstration for artisanal gold miners: Brazil, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Sudan, Tanzania and Zimbabwe (April 2008)

Books
Introducing New Technologies for Abatement of Global Mercury Pollution in Latin America
Authors: Marcello M. Veiga - UNIDO/UBC/CETEM/CNPq, (1997)
Protocols for environmental and health assessment of mercury released by artisanal and small-scale gold miners
Authors: Marcello M. Veiga and Randy F. Baker (2004)
Manual for training artisanal and small-scale gold miners
Authors: Veiga M, Metcalf S, Baker R, Klein B, Davis G, Bamber A, Siegel S, Singo P (2006)

Presentations
Retorts: Many options and many barriers
Author: Marcello Veiga. (2005)
Economic aspects of reducing mercury pollution in artisanal gold mining
The presentation was given by Simon D. Handelsman and Dr. Marcello Veiga at the Canadian Institute of Mining Annual Meeting in Vancouver (May 2006)
Mercury and small scale gold mining - magnitude and challenges worldwide. Presentation given by Dr. Kevin Telmer to the International Conference on Managing the International Supply and Demand of Mercury, in Brussels.
Author: Kevin Telmer (October 2006)

Brochures
Less Mercury, More Gold, and Better Health (GMP)
Author: Marcello Veiga (November 2005)