Earlier this year I was fortunate to participate in the inception workshop for the Integrated Sound Management of Mercury in Indonesia’s Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining (GOLD-ISMIA) project. ISMIA is the Indonesia component of a global programme, funded by the GEF and partner governments, to phase out mercury use in Artisanal and Small-scale gold mining. This follows the vision of Prof. Marcello Veiga at UBC in Vancouver who describes how with appropriate support, illeg