Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASM) Division was newly established within the Mining Department of MRPAM. The division staff members closely cooperate with the SAM project team and other project stakeholders within its main objectives:

• support the establishment of an transparent and straight-forward regulatory framework for the ASM sector;
• formation of institutional structures and organizations within the ASM sector encouraged and supported;
• Skills and know how to Artisanal miners and other stakeholders transferred in support of better performing and safer operations and
• Knowledge base for the integrated natural resource management and rural development established.

In order to regulate and coordinate Artisanal mining informally undertaken in the country an Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Division (ASM D) was established under the Mining Department of MRPAM. The ASM D has the following staff members:

- D. Enkhtuya, ASM Environmental Specialist
- B. Dashbal, ASM Management Specialist
- P.Manlai, ASM Technological Specialist
- D. Khangai, ASM Geological Officer
- B. Bat-tsogt, Local Representative, Zaamar, Selenge Aimag
- Kh. Bold, Local Representative, Bayankhongor Aimag