The resource library
Start with the flagship references, then search the whole record. Below the highlights sits a complete, filterable mirror of the Delve resource database: every document, dataset, country profile and theme, as a linked record.
State of the Sector reports
The flagship series from the World Bank and Pact, each edition reading ASM against a Sustainable Development Goal. Three editions have been published to date (2019, 2020 and 2023).
State of the ASM Sector
The inaugural report: mapping the global data gap and the case for filling it. Cases from Ghana, Mongolia, Guyana, Peru, Morocco, India.
Read on Delve2020ASM & decent work (SDG 8)
ASM’s contribution to inclusive growth and decent work, health & safety, productivity, mercury, gender and child labour.
Read on Delve2023ASM & gender (SDG 5)
First primary-data edition: a review of mining law in 21 countries and surveys of 1,900+ on women in ASM.
Read on Delve2024A Renewed Framework for ASM (World Bank)
The 2024 flagship reframing ASM around legitimacy and professionalisation, counting a labour value chain of 225M+; the foundation of the "renewal" agenda.
Read the frameworkSurvey instruments & standards
Comparable data needs common questions. Delve publishes a suite of standard and customisable ASM questionnaires, alongside data-quality standards for contributions. These are what turn scattered studies into one record.
- Delve data standards, the format, sourcing and quality rules a contribution must meet. See contribute →
- Standard ASM questionnaires, site, household, mineral and trader instruments for consistent fieldwork (searchable in the library below).
- Country profile template, the common structure behind every country page.
The full Delve library
Everything published on the Delve database, filterable by kind and topic and searchable by title. This is the complete resource record, over 1,600 documents, datasets, country profiles, themes and news items, mirrored here as linked records so you can find any of it from one place.
The directory lists the datasets and organisations behind these documents; regulation and standards hold the legal and certification instruments; initiatives gathers the programmes. This page carries the underlying documents.
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- Launch of the Delve Exchange ASM Academy
- Reframing Child Labour Due Diligence
- The Multistakeholder Partnership Initiative for Sustainable and Responsible Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining
- 'Mercury-free technology' brochure
- "Do you know about COVID-19?" - Educational Video for Children
- 2023 State of the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector
- A Bibliometric Analysis of the Scientific Research on Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining
- A blockchain is only as strong as its weakest link: transparency and artisanal gold
- A Call to Action: Mitigating Impacts of COVID-19 on Artisanal Gold Mining Communities
- A collaborative approach to assess the vulnerability of small-scale miners in the Philippines to climate change impacts
- A Country Mining Vision Guidebook: Domesticating the African mining vision.
- A critical time for mercury science to inform global policy
- A database of artisanal, small-scale, and large-scale mining in the Copperbelt region of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia
- A Gold Web: How India became on of the world's largest gold smuggling hubs
- A Golden Opportunity: Scoping Study of Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining in Zimbabwe
- A Government-backed Credit Scheme for Miners in Rwanda
- A Guide for Governments, Companies and Practitioners: To Support Women's Rights and Mitigate Gender Risks During OECD Due Diligence Implementation
- A mercury-free path
- A Message From The Miners
- A methodological toolkit for field assessments of artisanally mined alluvial diamond deposits
- A methodology for conducting national-scale alluvial diamond resource potential and production capacity assessments, with a focus on artisanal mining
- A new hazard assessment workflow to assess soil contamination from large and artisanal scale gold mining
- A Path to Mercury-free Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining
- A Rapid Assessment of Gold and Financial Flows linked to Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in the Philippines: Follow the Money Philippines
- A review of health issues related to child labor and violence within artisanal and small-scale mining
- A review of the impacts of mercury exposure in artisanal and small-scale gold mining communities
- A webinar: Mining together, building impact and stopping child labor in Colombia
- Access to Finance Options for Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining
- Accidents, Injuries, and Safety among Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Miners in Zimbabwe
- Accountability and Grievance Mechanism Posters
- Achieving Sustainable and Inclusive Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM): A Renewed Framework for World Bank Engagement
- Aciertos, Desaciertos y Propuestas del Proceso de Formalizaci
- Addressing Forced Labor in Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASM) A Practitioners Toolkit
- Addressing health when developing national action plans on artisanal and small-scale gold mining under the Minamata Convention on Mercur
- Addressing mercury and other hazards in the artisanal gold mining sector through public health interventions: A handbook for health professionals
- Administraci de Empresas Peques en el Sector de la Miner de Oro Artesanal y en Peque Escala
- Advancing Gender Equality in Natural Resource Governance
- Advancing the SDGs through Investment in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining
- Adverse Health Effects and Mercury Exposure in a Colombian Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Community
- African Golds Position Amid the Global COVID-19 Crisis
- Agreements and Engagement with Rightsholders in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining: Moving from Common Approaches toward Best Practice
- Air Raksa: si jahat perusak tubuh dan alam
- Alluvial diamond resource potential and production capacity assessment of Guinea
- Amazon forests capture high levels of atmospheric mercury pollution from artisanal gold mining
- Amioration de lacc au financement formel dans lextraction dor artisanale et petite helle
- Amiorer la formalisation, l'acc au financement et la trabilitde l'or artisanal
- An Initiative to Gender Responsive Village in ASGM Sector
- Analysis for Stakeholders on Formalization in the Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining Sector Based on Experiences in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
- Analysis of Formalization Approaches in the Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining Sector Based on Experiences in Ecuador, Mongolia, Peru, Tanzania, and Uganda. A compendium of case studies.
- Anisis social, econico, minero y ambiental de los distritos de Ananea y Cojata
- Anisis TSA en el sector de la Miner Artesanal y de Peque Escala de oro en Ecuador
- Annex 1: Forest-Smart Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) Standards
- Aplicaci de la Gu de la Debida Diligencia de la OCDE para empresas comercializadoras de minerales en Colombia
- Are they all illegal? A more nuanced view to guide LSM engagement with ASM.
- Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining in Uganda
- Artisanal and Small Scale Mining Handbook for Francophone West Africa
- Artisanal and Small Scale Mining Handbook for Ghana
- Artisanal and Small Scale Mining Handbook for Malawi
- Artisanal and Small Scale Mining Handbook for Zambia
- Artisanal and Small-Scale Copper Mining in Peru
Every record links to its page on the Delve database (World Bank & Pact). Nothing is rehosted here.