Beyond the environmental damage, gold profits pouring into communities cause problems ranging from corruption to road damage to declining school attendance. Although ASM operations may not move 11 million tons of earth, they do remove precious topsoil and reroute rivers and streams that are lifelines to farmers in the region.
These are some of the issues the MDG Center and the VCC will be tackling as we analyze the stakeholders, economics, and environments of mining communities in Guinea and Ghana. Beyond this work is the larger question of what it means to have a sustainable mining operation.
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