Mining
Contacts
Karen Hayes
vice president, environment, energy & extractives
khayes@pactworld.org
Cristina Villegas
director, mines to markets
cvillegas@pactworld.org
Pact, Magma Group and Aurum Monaco partner to make the business case for responsible artisanal gold in Mauritania
January 25, 2021
Global INGO and artisanal mining specialist Pact, geotechnical services provider Magma Group, and high-end precious metal refiner and producer Aurum Monaco are pleased to announce a new partnership...
Pact, AOC and Philips Monitors partner to improve responsible sourcing of minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo
December 16, 2020
International nonprofit organization Pact, AOC International (Europe) B.V. and MMD-Monitors & Displays Nederland B.V. (Philips Monitors), leaders in the global monitor market, announce a new...
Reversing ‘conflict minerals’: Let’s formalize artisanal mining for peaceful, just and inclusive societies
December 7, 2020
This is a cross-post of a Guest Article published on the IISD SDG Knowledge Hub.
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a largely informal industry, known for its close relations with armed...
Pact’s Karen Hayes celebrated in 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining publication
November 19, 2020
Pact’s Karen Hayes, Vice President of Energy, Environment and Extractives, has recently been selected as one of 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining by Women in Mining U.K. The biennial global...
Combating modern slavery in artisanal cobalt mining is vital to achieving the Paris Agreement targets
October 19, 2020
Coinciding with Anti-Slavery Day on October 18, last week the UK’s Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) released its review of UK aid spending to tackle modern slavery in developing countries...
Communities affected by Covid-19 receive support from expanded Pact, Trafigura, Chemaf program in DRC
October 12, 2020
The lives and livelihoods of artisanal and small-scale miners were precarious even before the Covid-19 pandemic. About 42 million people around the world work in artisanal and small-scale mining, or...
Harnessing artisanal and small-scale mining to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals
September 14, 2020
It makes intuitive sense that artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) – low-tech, labor-intensive mineral processing and extraction – cuts across the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Neglected artisanal miners are proven critical for the attainment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
September 9, 2020
Even in its informal state, ASM makes positive contributions to almost all of the SDGs, but also has negative impacts on most of them.
Depending on the way it is approached, formalization can help...
ITSCI: A decade of success
September 1, 2020
Pact is proud to be the lead on-the-ground implementer of the ITSCI system. This article was originally published in the July 2020 issue of the Tantalum-Niobium International Study Center Bulletin,...
Mining Review Africa podcast: Women in mining
August 3, 2020
Pact's Stephanie Shumsky discusses women in mining and Pact's Mines to Markets program, which improves the lives of small-scale miners around the globe.