According to the government’s Regional Autonomous Corporation of Risaralda (CADER), illegal gold mining operations by private companies have left pools of cyanide and mercury along the countryside twice the size of an Olympic swimming pool and have devastated local communities, Caracol Radio reported.
As a result of negligence by the private mining companies, the pollution of the Aguita River in the state’s west has killed off the fish population and caused damage to the trees as well as local wildlife over the past three months.
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