The register

Entities

One record per real thing in the gold sector’s public record: producers, sites, titles, refiners, schemes, registers, regulators, programmes. Each carries its relationships, and each relationship carries the passage it rests on.

This layer sits beside the hub’s directory sections and reads the same public sources from a different angle. A directory answers what exists. A record here answers who is connected to whom, when, and on what evidence.

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

By type

Ground and places

213Mine site / workingsThe physical place gold comes out of: a pit, a shaft, an alluvial working or a named site.128Refinery / smelterThe downstream end of the chain: refiners and smelters that turn dore and concentrate into refined metal.117Jurisdiction / administrative areaA country, region, department or municipality. Every geographic claim on the hub hangs off one.90Mining 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.1Processing plantWhere ore is milled, amalgamated or leached before it leaves the producing area.

Actors

450Producer organisationAn organisation that mines: a cooperative, an association, a small company or an individual operator.247Trader / exporter / intermediaryA buyer, aggregator, exporter or broker moving gold between the producing area and the market.63PersonA named individual: a sanctioned person, a director or a community leader.42Civil-society organisationAn NGO, association or community organisation working on artisanal mining and its effects.35Regulator / public authorityA public authority with power over mining: ministries, environmental agencies, geological institutes and regional offices.34Downstream manufacturer / brand21Funder / development partnerA donor or development partner paying for formalisation, mercury reduction or traceability work.18Financial institution14Armed or non-state actorAn armed group or parallel authority taxing, gating or controlling access to mining ground.7Industry 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.2CommunityA population living with or around a mining operation.

Instruments and frames

79Initiative / programmeA named programme or project with scope and membership, run across one or more countries.17Certification scheme / standardA voluntary standard a producer, site or refiner can be certified against, with its own requirements, versions and holders.16Register / cadastreAn official list or cadastre. A register has an operator, a stated scope, an edition and a freshness of its own.

Events and evidence

2699Regulatory action / enforcementAn act by an authority: a sanction, a suspension, an export ban, an authorisation, an inspection or a formalisation decree.310IncidentA recorded event at or around a mining operation: a collapse, a contamination, a raid, a fatality or a conflict event.78Source documentA published document the hub reads from: a registry export, a report, an investigation, a dataset or an article.
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OEFA2088 linksPeru1145 linksBrazil430 linksANM (Agencia Nacional de Mineracao)423 linksJunin205 linksLima168 linksArequipa152 linksPasco139 linksAncash138 linksCompañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A.127 linksDG FISMA121 linksDR Congo119 links

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