ASM Case Studies

ASM in PNG: Selling gold. Courtesy by Daniele Moretti.
ASM in PNG: Selling gold. Courtesy by Daniele Moretti Selling gold. Courtesy of Daniele Moretti. A series of case studies have been produced that document concrete examples of equitable, effective, and sustainable local-level partnerships which include small-scale miners or their communities as a guide to the development of better policy and practice in the different jurisdictions of the Asia-Pacific region.

The case studies have been undertaken in India, and other parts of South Asia, in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, China and the Philippines by different people from the network. The case studies can be found here.

Each of the local case studies focuses on interventions which aim to:

  • bring forth locally-based agency in promoting sustainability of livelihoods
  • resolve a specific problem affecting the livelihoods of small-scale miners, their families or communities; and
  • to achieve measurable progress towards one or more of the Millennium Development Goals (see Appendix) within a specific local context

Each of the interventions featured in these case studies also:

  • involves a partnership between local communities and one or more of:
    1. government agencies;
    2. civil society organizations;
    3. large-scale mining companies; and
  • have a reasonable chance of being replicated in different countries of the region, and therefore be worthy of dissemination to a wider regional audience.

Resources

TitleYearAuthorCountryTypeKeywords
Project Initiation Seminar Report2013Kuntala Lahiri-DuttIndia
Revisiting coal cycles in eastern India: Report of 2012 survey2014Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, David Williams and Justin ImamIndiaPDFcoal, illegal, mining, poverty, cycle, supply, village, Eastern India
Stone Quarry Workers of Wagholi2014J Navale, P Rege, S Pawar, Nr Jadhav and P JagtapIndiaPDFstone quarries, informal mining, labour studies
Marble Quarry Workers of Makrana
2014MLPCIndiaPDFmarble quarries, informal mining, labour studies
Report of Pune Workshop 2014SantulanIndiapdfstone quarries, informal mining, labour studies
Hugh Brown photos of illegal coal mining and trade in eastern India2013Hugh BrownAustraliaphotos in a pdf fileInformal mining, Eastern India, coal
Limestone quarry workers of Kota2015AravaliIndiaPDFlimestone quarries, informal mining, labour studies
Sandtone quarry workers of Karauli2015AravaliIndiaPDFSandstone quarries, informal mining, labour studies
Mining and quarrying households
2015Siddiqui & Lahiri-DuttAustraliaPDFQuarry workers, India livelihoods, stones, marble
Rajasthan Gemstones2015Nesar AhmadIndiaPDFinformal mining gemstones