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Communities and Small Scale Mining
5th Annual General Meeting and Learning Event
September 18-24, 2005
Salvador de Bahia, Brazil
MEETING SUMMARY AND REPORT
“Building sustainable communities
t hrough artisanal and small-scale mining”

Acknowledgements
CASM extends its sincere appreciation for the support received for this
event from:
 The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development
(DFID),
 The World Bank,
 The staff of the Companhia Baiana de Pesquisa Mineral (CBPM),
 The staff of Centro de Tecnologia Mineral (CETEM)
 The companies, organizations and projects contributing and sharing
their experience and expertise during the presentations.
The CASM Secretariat also wishes to express its gratitude to those
companies and organizations in Brazil who assisted and hosted the
conference venue and the site visits for the post-conference field trip to
Jacobina, Campo Formosa, Carnaiba and Ourolandia.
Further special thanks is given to the many speakers and workshop
leaders whose time and energy made the learning events both challenging
and rewarding.
Finally, CASM acknowledges the various contributions of Jeffrey
Davidson, Amelia Williams, Estelle Levine and Veronika Kohler of
CASM without whose hard work the event would not have been as
successful, or as enjoyable.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................... 2
Table of Contents ....................................................................................................................... 3
Executive Summary of Annual Meeting ................................................................................... 5
Registration and pre-conference CASM Business Meeting ................................................... 8
Program of pre-conference CASM Business Meeting ......................................................... 8
Technical Program, Day One .................................................................................................... 9
Program of morning session ................................................................................................ 9
Remarks and presentations of morning session: Opening Ceremony .............................. 9
John Hobbs, UK Department for International Development, Chairman of CASM: ........................
Claudio Scliar, Federal Secretary of Geology and Mines, Ministry of Mines, Brazil ......................
José Luiz Pérez Garrido, Secretary of Industry, Commerce and Mining of Bahia, Brazil ..............
H.E. Esperança Laurinda Bias, Minister of Mines, Mozambique ..................................................
Linus Adie, on behalf of H.E. Oby Ezekwesili, Minister of Solid Minerals, Nigeria ........................
Gotthard Walser, CASM Secretariat, Mining Department, World Bank Group ..............................
Group Photograph ........................................................................................................................
Program of afternoon session ............................................................................................ 13
Presentations of afternoon session ................................................................................... 13
Miguel Antonio Cedraz Neri (DNPM): History of ASM in Brazil and challenges ahead .................
Adalberto Figueiredo Ribeiro (COMIN-Bahia government): The evolution of the government
response to managing garimpagem .......................................................................................
Ildegardo Rosa Santos (OCEB): Perspectives of the Bahia Mining Cooperatives ........................
Walter Lins Arcoverde (Federal University of Rio Janeiro): Perspectives from communities
affected by ASM - Indigenous Issues .....................................................................................
Prof. Marjorie C. Nolasco: Environmental Transformations by Diamond Miners: the historical
case of Lavras Diamantinas in the Chapada Diamantina National Park, Bahia, and
actual perspectives by mining communities ...........................................................................