; and (D) to develop mechanisms to support regulated artisanal mining as a job growth area; (8) to engage the mining industry to encourage the building of technical expertise in best practices, environmental safeguards, and access to new technologies; (9) to support the establishment of gold commodity supply chain due diligence, responsible sourcing, tracing and tracking capacities, and standards-compliant commodity certification systems in countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, including efforts recommended in the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High Risk Areas, Third Edition (2016); (10) to engage with civil society, including the indigenous communities that are directly impacted, to reduce the negative environmental impacts of ASM, particularly— (A) the use of mercury in preliminary refining and in extracting gold; (B) the destruction of tropical forests; (C) the construction of illegal and unregulated dams and the resulting valley floods; (D) the pollution of water resources and soil; and (E) the release of dust, which can contain toxic chemicals and heavy metals that can cause severe health problems; (11) to aid and encourage ASM miners— (A) to formalize their business activities, including through skills training, technical and business assistance, and access to financing, loans, and credit; (B) to utilize environmentally safe and sustainable mining practices, including by scaling up the use of mercury-free gold refining and extracting technologies, and mining methods and technologies that do not result in deforestation, forest destruction, air pollution, water and soil-contamination, and other negative environmental impacts associated with ASM; (C) to reduce the costs associated with formalization and compliance with mining regulations; (D) to fully break away from the influence of illicit actors who leverage the control of territory and use violence to extort miners and push them into illicit arrangements