Mercury Abatement

Objectives

• To select a technique able to substitute the use of mercury by artisanal small-scale miners.

• To demonstrate and train artisanal small miners to the use of the selected technique.

Small-Scale Gold Mining: Panning with Mercury

Smelting of Gold Concentrate without Mercury

using a locally made furnace

Contractor

British Geological Survey and University of Mining and Technology

UMaT PO Box 237, Tarkwa, Ghana

Tel.:+233 362 20324

e-mail: info@umat.edu.gh

Pouring melted gold and flux in the mould

Separation of the gold bead from the slag