WP C – Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining

WP-C – Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining

Training sessions for ASSM cover several main topics:

The key terms of mineral exploration
The key environmental legislation and issues
Socio-economics of ASSM
Occupational health & safety issues related to ASSM
The different types of methods involved in mineral processing
The obligation towards the Geological Survey and the Ministry of Mines
Awareness of issues related to business planning for ASSM
Ideally, each trainee will prepare and present a Return-to-Work project. The project would be the short-term (6-12 months) application of their newly acquired skills to an area of interest to their own Geological Survey e.g. national framework for ASSM, applied ASSM mineral processing, etc

WP-C aims to fulfil the overall and specific objectives by:

Training the participants to be trainers for ASSM operators in their countries
Increasing knowledge within the ASSM domain of the WP-C topics so that African Geological Surveys can better support, improve and control the conditions in local artisan communities
Emphasising social sustainability in relation to safety, child & women labour exploitation, gender equality and community development
Selecting new trainees (who were not participants in PanAfGeo1) from African Geological Surveys, ASSM departments, environmental departments, mines inspectors from national Ministries of Mines, and central or provincial environmental authorities
Providing training materials consensually prepared by European and African experts and discussed during the session by all trainees
Providing opportunities for dialogue and networking between all participants, trainees and trainers, Europeans and Africans, building relationships at individual, national and continental levels

WP-C is led by GEUS (Denmark) with technical and scientific assistance and expertise from an external consulting agency, LNEG (Portugal), and BRGM (France) and African Geological Surveys.

WORK PACKAGE LEADER

Thomas Roed-Thorsen

The Geological Survey of Denmark
and Greenland (GEUS)

trt@geus.dk