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Table 3: Main countries informally importing mercury for ASGM

Est. annual net informal mercury imports** 0 0-150 60-200

Reported mercury exports 2016 311*

Reported mercury exports 2015 284

Reported mercury imports 2016 0 119 0 238

Reported mercury imports 2015 min. 133 12 140 0 min. 79

Mean mercury use in ASGM

Countries using ≥20 MT per year (mean) mercury in ASGM

(tonnes) 210-630

Indonesia Colombia Peru Bolivia China Ecuador

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 min. 0 0 0 0 311

9 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 295

90-270 73-218 84-156 25-175 43-128 63-103 35-105 35-105

0 0

0 0 0

50-120 50-100 40-100 40-100

Sudan Ghana Philippines Suriname Brazil Burkina Faso Tanzania Zimbabwe Nigeria Total

min. min. 0 18 0 3 0 min. 378

0 0 0 3 3 1 min. 0 371

50-80 10-60 20-50 20-50 15-35 10-30 365-1075

44-82 23-68 18-53 20-50 13-38 10-30 786-2211

* The Comtrade entry of 600 tonnes has been adjusted to remove 389 tonnes of unlikely exports to Japan ** Informal mercury imports net of those that may have been re-exported, i.e. informal imports for the country’s own use Sources: Artisanal Gold Council (2017) and Comtrade (2018)

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