I'm not against foreign investment, but if instead of benefiting from being custodians of one of the world's most valuable metals, the people are suffering by chemical effluent poisoning their water sources from the mines and the like, we need to look at our contracts with fresh eyes.
The current estimates for the number of people relying on small-scale mining directly and indirectly was about a million five years ago. The figure is obviously much higher now, including child labour and all...
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