Waste Management Outlook for Mountain Regions

ESTIMATES OF NUMBER OF WORKERS IN ARTISANAL GOLD MINING SECTOR, 2012 (in 1000s)

0 125 250

500

750

1 000

1 250

1 500

1 750

2 000

2 250

2 500

2 750

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO CHINA TANZANIA INDIA BRAZIL

ETHIOPIA PAKISTAN ZIMBABWE

GLOBAL GOLD PRODUCTION (2014)

CANADA

USA

RUSSIA

MEXICO

CHINA

MADAGASCAR SIERRA LEONE GHANA PHILIPPINES MALI CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC MOZAMBIQUE NIGER SUDAN

PERU

ARTISANAL GOLD MINING & MERCURY EMISSIONS

INDONESIA

AUSTRALIA

BRAZIL

GHANA

COLOMBIA INDONESIA

ANGOLA UGANDA GUINEA CHAD KENYA

SOUTH AFRICA

ESTIMATES OF GOLD PRODUCTION FROM ARTISANAL MINING (2012)

LIBERIA BOLIVIA ECUADOR PAPUA NEW GUINEA BURUNDI ZAMBIA MOROCCO RWANDA PERU

200 kg 2 000 kg 20 000 kg 100 000 kg 450 000 kg

PHILIPPINES

CHINA

COLOMBIA

PERU BOLIVIA

No data available

PANAMA VIETNAM MEXICO CAMEROON SOUTH AFRICA GABON

9.9% Primary production of nonferrous metals Coal burning 24.2%

Consumer product waste 4.9% Cement production 8.8% Large-scale gold production 5.0%

NAMIBIA GUYANA

ESTIMATES OF MERCURY EMISSIONS FROM ARTISANAL GOLD MINING (2010)

Chlor-alkali industry 1.5% 2.3% Primary production of ferrous metals Contaminated sites 4.2%

SURINAME VENEZUELA NICARAGUA

CHINA

TOGO CHILE BENIN BOTSWANA EQUATORIAL GUINEA

Other 2.1%

COLOMBIA

Artisanal & small-scale gold mining

INDONESIA

%

37.1%

SUDAN

BOLIVIA

SENEGAL SOMALIA ALGERIA CUBA

TANZANIA

GHANA

BREAKDOWN OF MERCURY EMISSIONS BY SECTOR, 2010

FRENCH GUIANA GUINEA BISSAU LIBYA

Source: UNEP (2013) Global Mercury Assessment 2013: Sources,Emissions,Releases and Environmental Transport ,Switzerland: Geneva. Seccatore J. and et al (2014) “An estimation of the artisanal small-scale production of gold in the world,” Science of The Total Environment , 496. World Gold Council (2015) Interactive gold mining map, http://www.gold.org/

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