Isabalija had earlier said in a letter dated Aug.2 that the government had moved to evict the artisanal miners, in order to organise them and regulate the sector better.
The NEMA and energy ministry officials accuse the artisanal miners of engaging in extensive environmental degradation of the mining area and employing potentially dangerous methods of mining with the use of cyanide and mercury.
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