As a matter of fact, the illegal miners have the liberty to steal our natural resources, destroy the farming lands and pollute the water bodies with methyl mercury and noxious cyanide.
Apparently, the exposure to noxious mercury in Ghana remains a serious health problem, and we cannot continue to live in a denial.
“Unlike some other West African countries, Ghana allows mercury use in mining. Mercury is freely available in shops and can be bought with a canister, bottle, or as a ball wrapped in a plastic cling film. Much of it has been brought in by Chinese miners.
“Ghana has an estimated one million small-scale gold miners (Galamseyers), and they commonly use mercury to process gold.
“They mix the mercury with the ore to create a gold-mercury amalgam, and then burn the mercury off so the raw gold remains.
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/Verily-I-ll-say-we-are-not-serious-as-a-nation-523541
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