Aladdin Separation Technologies : 03/01/2026

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 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.

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Poison in the Lifeblood: Inside the Crisis Facing the Salween River

Cyanide does not remain stable in heat—it evaporates or disperses. This is different from other heavy metals such as mercury, which can accumulate in aquatic systems.

Monday, March 30, 2026

Another illegal mining operation dismantled in South Cotabato

Banlas, or sluice mining—a highly destructive mining method—involves pouring large amounts of water onto a mountain’s surface to loosen soil and rocks to extract gold ore, which is then panned using mercury.

Sunday, March 29, 2026

Toxic Gold: Concerns Loom over Lege Dembi, Temper Industry Boom

Several studies have also found high concentrations of toxic heavy metals and other chemicals, including cadmium, mercury, lead, and arsenic, near the mine.

Saturday, March 28, 2026

Galamsey Plague: Why Nigeria is next!

To separate the gold from the silt, they use two silent assassins: mercury and cyanide. These chemicals are dumped directly into the soil and the riverbeds, creating a toxic legacy that scientists warn will haunt the West African water table for the next 800 years.

Friday, March 27, 2026

Ghana’s war on galamsey: A fight for the future

The effects of galamsey are already evidenced in polluted waterways, deforested landscapes, and mercury-poisoned communities.

Thursday, March 26, 2026

NAIMOS seeks stronger public support in galamsey fight

Colonel Eric Amponsah Buah, Coordinator of the National Anti‑Illegal Mining Operations Secretariat (NAIMOS), has called for intensified public support against illegal mining, citing threats to water bodies and national security.

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Protect rivers now or face water crisis —FRWB

“Is it any wonder that we now have traces of toxic chemicals including mercury and cyanide used in illegal mining ending up not only in rivers and aquatic life but also seeping into arable lands to contaminate food and cash crops with the obvious health complications?”, it asked.

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

REDESCA Alerts on the Impacts of Illegal Gold Mining on the Human Right to Water in the Americas

The most severe and documented impacts include the intensive use of mercury to separate gold from sediments. When discharged into rivers and streams, this metal can transform into methylmercury, a highly toxic substance that contaminates aquatic ecosystems and poses a serious threat to human health.

Monday, March 23, 2026

Costa Rica Court Orders Urgent Action on Illegal Mining in Crucitas

In the years since, informal and illegal miners, reportedly many of them foreign nationals entering through weakly monitored border crossings, have moved into the area. Authorities and local residents have long raised concerns that gold extraction methods involving mercury and arsenic are contaminating water sources and damaging surrounding forest.

Sunday, March 22, 2026

Border Gold Rush: How Illegal Mining is Overrunning Costa Rica

Costa Rica’s Security Minister Mario Zamora, reveal newly dug tunnels, collapsed mountain sections, and pools for washing ore with cyanide and mercury, contaminating soil and water and threatening nearby populations. Despite a $1 million security operation involving about a hundred police officers per shift, the authorities admit their capacity to control the sprawling illegal activity is minimal.

Saturday, March 21, 2026

Authorities uncover massive illegal operation deep in rainforest: 'Growing rapidly and causing serious harm'

A study in EXCLI Journal has also explored how illegal activities in the Amazon, like mining and logging, have negatively affected the health of the area's Indigenous people. Mercury used in illegal mining raises toxins in the environment and makes diseases like malaria more common by creating places where it's easy to spread.

Thursday, March 19, 2026

Kakamega gold mines: How toxic mercury exposure is affecting miners’ health, ruining environment

Mary Shikwato is among those who work in gold mines within the Bushiangala area. She suspects mercury exposure has put her at risk of various health complications.

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

‘Poisoned for Gold’ Project Pricks Nation’s Conscience

Heavy metal contamination from illegal gold mining operations in Ghana is devastating the environment and causing severe health problems for workers and local communities, reports an award-winning three-part video series from JoyNews TV-Ghana. Reporter Erastus Asare Donkor and video editor Kofi Asare traversed the country, meticulously documenting the link between mining contamination and local health issues.

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

China and the Amazon’s Illegal Gold: The Plot Behind Clandestine Mining

In that region of the Guianas, “there are operators from China working in territories where there is a strong presence of illegal mining,” Bram Ebus, founder of Amazon Underworld, told Diálogo. “It is the Chinese who buy the sand already treated with mercury, which captures between 25 percent and 30 percent of the gold, and then process it in their country in cyanidation plants, where the remaining gold is recovered in much higher percentages.”

Monday, March 16, 2026

Gold Hunting Environmental Impact: 7 Key Effects on Land

Gold mining operations often utilize mercury or cyanide to extract gold from the ore. In the process, mercury binds to gold, forming amalgams that are later separated by releasing toxic vapors or waste. In unregulated or artisanal mining (ASM),

Sunday, March 15, 2026

Artists from 11 countries staged a live performance

CHIANG RAI: Artists from 11 countries staged a live performance along the Kok River on Saturday, highlighting growing concern over toxic contamination linked to upstream mining in Myanmar and calling on authorities to address the crisis and restore the river.

Saturday, March 14, 2026

How a disputed Somali town became a hotspot for unregulated gold mining

The GI-TOC report found 20 active mining sites in Milxo, run by at least 18 commercial operators. Many employ foreign technical staff and rely on hazardous, rudimentary extraction methods, including widespread mercury use and cyanide leaching.

Friday, March 13, 2026

Artisanal Small-Scale Mining: Percentage of Global Gold Output & Its Far-Reaching Environmental, Agricultural, and Socio-Economic Impact (2026 & Beyond)

Amazon: Massive riverine gold mining has driven both wealth and degradation—especially pronounced in Peru’s Madre de Dios, with notable mercury contamination.

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Slow death by food

For eight times the minimum wage, all a galamsey miner in Manso-Adubea has to do after each day shift is to wash the mined gold in a lead mercury mixture with water pumped directly from Nsuo Abena, W’aha, or any of the surrounding rivers that people depend on for survival and agricultural activities. Afterwards, he dumps the water-heavy-metal solution directly back into the land. Sometimes this washes downstream into rivers. Other times, it is absorbed into the soil.

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Impact: Tracking illegal gold in the Amazon

“Illegal gold mining often uses mercury and cyanide which are highly toxic for both the environment and human health”, says Erich Moreira Lima, the Brazilian Federal Police’s Head of Forensic Geology. “Recent years have seen a sharp rise in the amount of gold on the Brazilian market, reaching around 85 tons a year, and about 25 per cent of that is likely mined from illegal sites.”

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Effects of Gold Mining: 7 Major Impacts on Land & Water

Deposition of tailings, which often contain arsenic, mercury, and heavy metals, contaminating soil over time
read more... https://farmonaut.com/mining/effects-of-gold-mining-7-major-impacts-on-land-water

Monday, March 9, 2026

60% of our water bodies are polluted – Minority Chief Whip pushes Ecocide Law

Raising the issue in Parliament on Monday, he said the scale of environmental degradation, particularly from illegal mining, demands decisive legal action.

Sunday, March 8, 2026

Galamsey Chemicals and Air Pollution linked to rising Diabetes risk in children

Dr. Owusu, a lecturer at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Central University, says exposure to heavy metals such as lead, mercury, and arsenic through contaminated food, water, or air can seriously damage vital organs.

Saturday, March 7, 2026

Illegal gold mining surges into new parts of Peru’s Amazon, threatening rivers and lives

The expansion is accelerating deforestation, contaminating rivers with mercury and exposing remote communities to violence and organized crime, even as the government says it is stepping up enforcement.

Friday, March 6, 2026

Gold revenue at what environmental cost? A case for green GDP for Ghana

More recently, Gasparinnetti et al. (2024) estimated that values associated with social and environmental damage of gold mining range from $187,200 to $389,200 per kilogram of gold. This was mostly attributable to mercury contamination, which represents more than twice the market value of gold. The valuation framework depended on impact valuation of deforestation, land degradation and mercury contamination.

read more... https://ghanaiantimes.com.gh/gold-revenue-at-what-environmental-cost-a-case-for-green-gdp-for-ghana/amp/

Thursday, March 5, 2026

Amazon Fish Contaminated With Toxic Metals Threaten Riverine Communities' Health

Researchers from the Federal University of Western Pará (UFOPA) and collaborators analyzed arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), and lead (Pb) in six popular fish species collected directly from local fishermen in five municipalities of western Pará - regions impacted by artisanal gold mining and bauxite extraction.

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Paediatric Society of Ghana warns galamsey threatens children’s brain development

It said illegal mining released toxic substances (mercury, lead, arsenic, and cyanide) into water sources, soil, and the food chain.

The letter said pregnant women and young children were exposed to contaminated drinking water, fish, crops, and household dust.

Monday, March 2, 2026