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The Global Mercury Project began in 2002 with a vision to
address the environmental issue of mercury contamination from artisanal and small-scale gold
mining. Foundational objectives of the project have been: to
introduce cleaner technologies, train miners, develop
regulatory capacities within national and regional
governments, conduct environmental and health assessments
and build capacity within participating countries to
continue monitoring Hg pollution after the project finishes.
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Newsletters from Kalimantan. These newsletter provide a
look at work being done in association with the Global
Mercury Project around the community of Kereng Pangi,
Central Kalimantan. The newsletters are available in English
as well as Indonesian. The team in Kalimantan includes
Bardolf Paul, Sumali Agrawal, Dzul Fikri Al Huda, Mayang
Meilantina and Kartie Vitamerry. The most recent update can
be viewed here:
December 2006 Newsletter from
Kalimantan.
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October 26-27,
2006. Brussels: the European Commission hosted
the International Conference on Managing the Supply
and Demand of Mercury. Policy makers, industry
representatives, non-governmental organisations and
scientists were invited to participate in this event. Kevin
Telmer represented the Global Mercury Project and gave
a lecture titled
Mercury and Small Scale Gold Mining – Magnitude and
Challenges Worldwide. Follow the link to view
his presentation. The
conference agenda can also be viewed.
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October 22-28,
2006. Training
of the trainers - for Tapajos gold miners, Brazil. As part of the
Global Mercury Projects' mission to Remove Barriers towards the Introduction of
Cleaner Artisanal Gold Mining and Extraction Technologies, a
group of GMP representatives met with gold miners from the Tapajos
river basin in Creporizão, Pará, Brazil. The week long training event was
titled "Cuide de seu Tesouro" or Care for your
treasure. An
Aide Memoire describes the goals and objectives of the
training and includes a list participants and the agenda. A
picture document has also been assembled by the
coordinator, Rodolfo Neives.
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October 3 - 4, 2006.
Washington D.C. Meeting on Enhancing Global Policy to Reduce Mercury
Supply, Demand and Use in Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining
in Developing Countries and Countries with Economies in
Transition was attended by several members of the Global
Mercury Project where they participated in various
presentations. See the
UNIDO Aide Memoire
for information.
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September 2006. This
website has been updated, be sure to check out the country
profile pages. Recent
additions include new videos accessible from the Movies tab. From the
Indonesia page,
a link exists to the Galangan
Website; a page for sharing information regarding artisanal mining in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. This
webpage highlights the use of Geographic Information System
tools
for investigating the effects of ASM. It is also
available in
Indonesian.
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July,
2006.
Environmental and health assessments summary document.
This report characterizes presents the main findings of the
GMPs Environmental and Health Assessments for Brazil,
Indonesia, Lao PDR, Sudan, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Assessment
of the environmental and health impacts of ASM has been one
of the main objectives of the Global Mercury Project; these
studies have provided baseline data and will ensure that
further GMP activities are properly targeted.
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Several
presentations were made by Global Mercury Project members at
the II FORO INTERNACIONAL SOBRE LA MINERIA DEL ORO EN
PEQUEÑA ESCALA, hosted in Guayana, Venezuela in mayo 2006.
These presentations are in Portuguese and are available
for viewing from the
Venezuela
documents page.
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