A THRIVING black market of dangerous substances, mercury and cyanide, has emerged in the country despite the ban on the use of mercury and stringent controls of cyanide procurement with small-scale miners and the general public easily accessing the dangerous substances posing a danger to themselves and the environment, Sunday News can exclusively reveal.
Mercury use in gold processing is banned internationally while the Government has also tightened controls on the use of cyanide following the widely publicised cyanide poisoning incident which resulted in the death of over 100 elephants at the Hwange National Park.
An investigation by Sunday News last week revealed that the two dangerous substances could easily be accessed by illegal miners from backyard mining supplies shops in the city.
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