Mali to boost funding and policing of artisanal gold mining

Mining will be done in selected corridors and at the end of the activities we will close the holes to restore the ecosystem," Pona said.
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, also at the meeting, called on miners to end the practice of child labour.
"We will not allow children into gold mining sites," Keita said, "We have to stop this."
A 2011 report by Human Rights Watch detailed reports of children aged 6 to 17 in Mali's artisanal mines digging pits, working underground in unstable mines, carrying and crushing heavy ore, and using toxic mercury to extract gold.
At least 16 people were killed and eight injured when a shaft in an artisanal gold mine some 130km south of Mali's capital Bamako collapsed on Saturday.
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