according to a team of researchers from the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), is a set of serious community health risks centring on neurological, lung, and kidney damage. After closely tracking artisanal practices in five cities in Antioquia over the past several years, the UNIDO investigators, who are financed by the Government of Antioquia Province as part of efforts to reform the artisanal gold industry, concluded in a recently published report that people here are exposed to the world's highest per head mercury pollution. Colombia as a whole, they believe, is the world's third largest consumer of mercury used in artisanal gold mining after China and Indonesia, and the world's highest per head polluter of mercury used in this type of industry. “The use of mercury in artisanal gold mining is a global problem that poses huge environmental and human health problems”, explains Marcello Veiga, a specialist on artisanal mining pollution from the University of British Colombia, in Vancouver, Canada, who works with UNIDO's mercury control efforts in Colombia, “but what we are seeing in cities in Antioquia is especially worrying, because it is largely an urban problem there. Mercury vapours are being released in the urban environment, intoxicating hundreds of thousands of neighbours of the gold processing centres and gold buyers.”
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Stamp Program Objectives
In order to address the global mercury problem, Aladdin has developed the Strategic Abatement of Mercury and Poverty (STAMP) program. This program is designed to induce artisanal and all mercury mining users to adopt Aladdin's highly efficient mining technologies. The fundamental strategy looks to illustrate the economic advantages of HGP to the miners. Although being able to provide a safe work environment , safety benefits alone are not sufficient to convince indigent miners to abandon mercury processing. Ultimately, the success of the program must rely on its ability to provide the miners with a greater level of income than what they are able to derive when using mercury. The broad objectives of the STAMP Program are as follows:
1. Employ as many artisanal miners as is possible while maintaining the economical integrity of the program.
2. Work to eliminate the use of mercury when extracting gold in the customary artisanal alluvial concentrates and hard rock deposit areas.
3. Increase artisanal miner wages above the national average and provide bonuses based on gold revenues.
4. Create new employment opportunities and provide training for higher paid jobs in the trades, management, administration, accounting, mining, geology, process engineering, and attendant disciplines.
5. Provide a humanitarian fund to benefit the miners and their families.
6. Convert sites to farming land or forestry after gold is depleted from the properties.
7. Attract artisanal miners to proven gold reserves set aside by large scale mining companies and / or the government.
8. Make a profit for all stakeholders
Aladdin's Pledge To Social Responsibility
Aladdin's Pledge To Social Responsibility
Aladdin Technologies Inc. is dedicated to bringing environmentally friendly processes to host countries so that mineral wealth can be extracted in a way that does not endanger local ecosystems or the health of native people. This interest - coupled with a commitment to mutual respect and a close involvement with all stakeholders - is behind the company's drive to help the government and citizens of countries achieve maximum benefit from their mineral resources. We also recognize that shareholder interests are best served when - based on our ethical treatment of indigenous people and sensitivity to environmental issues - countries actively seek out business relationships with the company.
Social responsibility is not simply an abstract concept, but rather, a realistic moral command and business strategy. Aladdin will do whatever is reasonable to help the communities of people around the world with which it interacts. Therefore, to disregard the tenants of mutual respect and fair trade would not only be morally corrupt, but it could also damage shareholder value in company mineral endeavors. Aladdin endeavors to be a leader in the way in which it brings obligations of social responsibility to its business enterprises.
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