Highlights from 3p Traceability Week: Expert Panelists Answer Your Questions

David Rabanus: Would small-scale mined gold, with its inherent pollution by mercury and cyanide, be eligible to be called “conflictive”? Personally I guess so, hence this challenge to incentivize the search for solutions. I think that policy-making must be part of it, and the UN Mercury Ban Treaty is a first step. But there is an urgent need for sustainable technologies, implementable at small scale. I’d like to hear your opinion.
Tristan Mecham: Hi David, Though I agree with your hopes to improve the environmental practices of small-scale mining, and by the looks of it you have been involved with it for some time, this piece of legislation does not account for the use of mercury or cyanide.

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