Zimbabwe: To Mine Or Not To Mine?

Worrying though is the fact that since the gold find, tens of thousands of remote mining sites have sprung up mostly on the Great Dyke and in Kadoma, Empress, Totololo and Zhombe to name but a few, igniting more use of mercury.
Mercury ravages the nervous system of miners and their families. It also travels thousands of miles in the atmosphere, settling in oceans and river beds elsewhere and moving up the food chain into fish.
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