Mining can transform environments, economies, and collectivities in real and significant ways. A range of stakeholders have a role to play in analyzing and managing the risks and impacts associated with mining. These stakeholders include companies, the state legislature, government service agencies, lenders and insurers, civil society and advocacy groups, and collectivities and their representative
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Houston, Texas (May 10th, 2018) Barksanem™ (BSM™) Inc., announces the signing of two (2) Licenses for the African continent. Barksanem™ Inc., is a marketing company that sells the intellectual property detained by Etienne Atger and his team for the mining sector. In the first quarter of 2019, two companies have signed
It’s the middle of the night when this little man wakes up. He is only about twelve years old. Nobody knows exactly when he was born. He stretches out on his worn mat. He wears the work clothes he wore yesterday and the days before that. His clothes are dusty and black with sweat, torn
One of the emerging topics that’s come out is the mercury agenda. Artisanal and small-scale miners and the processing centers where they take their ore, are the number one emitter of human-released mercury in the world. As a result of this, there is a treaty that was signed in 2013 called the Minamata Convention. This
After a long hour of chaotic and dusty off-road driving, we arrive in the village where we are expected. Looking for some shade, we park the vehicle under a huge ancestral Kapok tree. The “land chief”, we called a little earlier, is waiting for us there. He holds in his hand an old bike
Within the artisanal mining sector there are a few different types of miners that are typically seen in different places. In certain countries one type of artisanal mining can be called seasonal mining and this is often where rural farmers mine certain parts of the year. They might mine in the dry season and farm in
Many have asked, why does Barksanem™ (BSM™) only focus on the ASM space (Artisanal and small-scale mining)? We have already started to answer this question here: Barksanem™ and ASM Part 1… In that article I spoke about the economic reasons that make our choice incontestably evident. Numbers don’t lie as they say…. To take matters
