Artisanal Gold Council Blog

✅ 10 Countries; ✅ 5 Languages; ✅ Millions of rural poor positively impacted with better health, safety and economic conditions. This February is shaping up to be one of the most influential months in AGC’s history. And we are rolling into the Spring with more momentum than ever.  

Artisanal gold miners often operate in remote areas where they work long and hard extracting and processing ore to produce small batches of gold. This gold is then sold to a local gold buyer; however, because the price of gold fluctuates daily in international markets, one of the challenges for artisanal miners in these remote areas is having access to the daily spot price of gold in order to ensure they are receiving a fair price.