The Transformative Power of Fair Trade Gold Mining in Kenya and Tanzania

 In the developing world, small scale gold mining is subsistence based, almost always illegal, unregulated, and extremely toxic.   A small scale gold mine can look like destroyed river banks or patches of toxic tailings in the middle of a rainforest.   Sometimes it is done part time, to supplement or substitute for agricultural.  Almost universally, it is considered huge problem in the developing world.  Annually, small scale gold mine spills 1400 metric tons of mercury into the environment– mercury is,one of the most dangerous of all neuron-toxins.
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