“This has magnified the environmental degradation and polluted so many of our water bodies. Because it has attracted more people into the small-scale mining sector, without protective equipment, fatalities are also on the increase."
Indeed, more than 250 rivers in Ghana's mining communities have been reportedly poisoned by heavy metals and cyanide, raising worries about the quality of drinking water.
“The Chinese destroyed our land and our river, they are sitting there with pickups and guns, plenty of guns,” Maxwell Owusu, acting chief of a village in the central Ashanti region, told Bloomberg.
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