I was reading a report on conflict minerals. http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/672051.pdf
It pointed to an USAID document about mining in the Great Lakes region of Africa. https://www.usaid.gov/democratic-republic-congo/fact-sheets/usaiddrc-fact-sheet-responsible-minerals-trade This contained the following statement about mining sites in the DRC: SELECT 2014 ACCOMPLISHMENTS 140 artisanal mine sites have been validated as free from child labor and illegal taxation. Whenever I see statements like this, I always wonder about them. For example, where are these 140 sites? How are these sites identified? It sounds as though they went through a list of the sites, or that such a list of sites exists. And it sounds as though they marked the sites "yes" or "no". Where is that list? If that list did not exist before, they would at least have to have a list of the 140 sites now. They certainly do not seem to be publishing that or any other list. They are just waving the number "140" around. So, does anyone have any idea how one would find the locations of any of these sites, the compliant or non-compliant sites? I submitted the question to the USAID web site, but I think the site swallowed the question. I entered the question and hit the submit button and it gave me the blank form again. Which seems wrong. And I have not heard from them. So, any ideas or suggestions? thanx - ray _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
