Data · Directory

The people, places and institutions public sources name.

One page per named thing in the gold system, with its claims, relationships and evidence shown separately.

A directory answers what exists. A page here answers who is connected to whom, when, and on what public evidence.

Evidence standing is carried claim by claim. A page with one well-sourced link and one thin one shows both standings side by side, and forms no average of them.

What you will find here

Places and rights

The ground itself and the legal hold on it: named mine sites, the jurisdictions they sit in, the titles that grant access, and the plants where ore is first processed.

403Mine site / workingsThe physical place gold comes out of: a pit, a shaft, an alluvial working or a named site.189Jurisdiction / administrative areaA country, region, department or municipality. Every geographic claim on the hub hangs off one.92Mining title / concessionThe legal tenure over ground. A title is issued by an authority, runs for a term and can change hands independently of the workings on it.6Processing plantWhere ore is milled, amalgamated or leached before it leaves the producing area.

People and organisations

Who acts in the sector and who acts on it: producers, traders and refiners along the chain, and the regulators, funders and civil-society organisations around it.

629Producer organisationAn organisation that mines: a cooperative, an association, a small company or an individual operator.339Trader / exporter / intermediaryA buyer, aggregator, exporter or broker moving gold between the producing area and the market.148Refinery / smelterThe downstream end of the chain: refiners and smelters that turn dore and concentrate into refined metal.82PersonA named individual: a sanctioned person, a director or a community leader.67Regulator / public authorityA public authority with power over mining: ministries, environmental agencies, geological institutes and regional offices.50Civil-society organisationAn NGO, association or community organisation working on artisanal mining and its effects.28Funder / development partnerA donor or development partner paying for formalisation, mercury reduction or traceability work.24Armed or non-state actorAn armed group or parallel authority taxing, gating or controlling access to mining ground.12Industry association / private standard-setterA body that sets or runs standards for the gold market itself, not a government authority and not a mining-focused NGO.8CommunityA population living with or around a mining operation.

Rules and schemes

What a body can be held to: certification schemes and their requirements, the official registers that list who qualifies, and the regulatory actions taken against or in favour of a named party.

2705Regulatory action / enforcementAn act by an authority: a sanction, a suspension, an export ban, an authorisation, an inspection or a formalisation decree.27Register / cadastreAn official list or cadastre. A register has an operator, a stated scope, an edition and a freshness of its own.19Certification scheme / standardA voluntary standard a producer, site or refiner can be certified against, with its own requirements, versions and holders.

Programmes and evidence

What is being done and what documents it: the initiatives working in the sector, the incidents public sources describe, and the source documents each of these pages rests on.

310IncidentA recorded event at or around a mining operation: a collapse, a contamination, a raid, a fatality or a conflict event.109Source documentA published document the hub reads from: a registry export, a report, an investigation, a dataset or an article.97Initiative / programmeA named programme or project with scope and membership, run across one or more countries.

Actors

81Downstream manufacturer / brandA buyer of refined gold at the far end of the chain: a jeweller, a watchmaker, a brand or a component fabricator.64Financial institutionA bank, bullion dealer or investment house that finances, holds, buys or sells gold as a market participant.24Media & research organisationA newsroom, investigative outlet or research institute whose published work the hub reads as a source.7Recycler / secondary recovererA company that recovers gold from scrap, industrial waste, sweeps, electronics or end-of-life jewellery and returns it to the chain, rather than refining newly mined dore.
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OEFA2088 linksPeru1483 linksBrazil492 linksANM (Agencia Nacional de Mineracao)423 linksSwitzerland346 linksSwiss Precious Metals Transparency Platform — Public sourcing data328 linksJunin205 linksGhana168 linksLima168 linksDR Congo166 linksColombia155 linksArequipa154 links

Tenure and control · Geography · Chain of custody · Governance and compliance · Events and evidence · Identity · Participation and support

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