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 Friday. 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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