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A recent report penned by and involving 25 countries found that 15 million artisanal and small-scale gold miners are exposed to mercury, a potent neurotoxin. However, these same nations did not [...]
Greed, poverty, irresponsible legal mining giants which exploited and then abandoned South Africa’s mines, together with the government’s failure to enforce regulations on the mining giants to rehabilitate mines before closing them
While the illegal artisanal mining sector, called Zama Zama, works in abandoned mines, it is almost impossible for artisanal miners to get licences.
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