In the past three years, Tenkhoto has become an anything-goes boom town. It’s an outpost replete with winners, losers, buyers and sellers, as well as the problems associated with such frontier towns: prostitution, sexually transmitted diseases, alcohol abuse and violence.
But perhaps the biggest problem associated with the increase in independent gold mining in this area is the environmental pollution and human poisoning caused by the miners’ use of elemental mercury to mine their fortunes from gold.
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