For eight times the minimum wage, all a galamsey miner in Manso-Adubea has to do after each day shift is to wash the mined gold in a lead mercury mixture with water pumped directly from Nsuo Abena, W’aha, or any of the surrounding rivers that people depend on for survival and agricultural activities. Afterwards, he dumps the water-heavy-metal solution directly back into the land. Sometimes this washes downstream into rivers. Other times, it is absorbed into the soil.
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