gold concession in South Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The setting is a post-conflict context where …

This paper argues that the current formalization system for small-scale gold miners in Ghana has been undermined and … resulted in a booming small-scale gold system under poor government control. The paper recommends that politicians move to …

This paper assesses the role of gold as a hedge or safe haven against oil price movements. We use an approach based on … September 2011 revealed the following: (a) there is positive and significant average dependence between gold and oil, which … would indicate that gold cannot hedge against oil price movements; and (b) there is tail independence between the two …

This study investigates disclosure practices for gold development companies in their feasibility studies. The … information environment around feasibility studies released by developmental stage enterprises in the Australian gold mining … requirements which are highly prescriptive. Using a sample of 85 Australian gold feasibility studies, we develop a new voluntary …

We examine the long term dynamic relation between inflation and the price of gold. We begin by showing that there is no … cointegration between gold and inflation if the volatile period of the early 1980s is excluded from the data. However, we are also … variation in the gold–inflation linkage suggests gold׳s sensitivity to inflation is related to interest rate changes, a finding …

problems of Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) in sub-Saharan Africa, namely the emergence of Fairtrade Gold. Through an … analysis of Fairtrade Gold in Tanzania, this paper argues that despite Fairtrade׳s promises to ASM operators of better prices …, its potential efficacy is compromised by the informality of local gold markets and a deeply-rooted mistrust of development …

Mercury-usage in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has accelerated in developing countries during the last … the retort, a device capable of recycling up to 95 per cent of mercury in gold extraction, constitutes a broadly …