Tenkhoto is one of many such villages. Now the ore extraction process itself involves recuperating gold via burning mercury. This is a huge health and environmental problem (such artisanal mining accounts for the second source of mercury pollution worldwide--next to tanker degassing). So what my job consists of is implementing alternative methods to ore extraction. Not an easy task when all is so decentralized and unregulated, but we need to start somewhere.
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