The poisoning caused by artisanal mining from a gold rush killed at
least 400 children, yet villagers still say they would rather die of
lead poisoning than poverty, environmental scientist Simba Tirima told
the Associated Press. Villagers make 10 times as much money mining as
they do from farming in an area suffering erratic rainfall because of
climate change, he said.
Managing five landfills with some 13,000 cubic meters (nearly 460,000
cubic feet) of highly contaminated soil, and teaching villagers how to
mine safely are major challenges to prevent new contamination, he said
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