While there is plenty of legal mining in Ghana, Africa's second-largest gold producer, galamsey is unregulated. It leaves massive pits where trees once stood, pollutes water bodies that communities rely on and destroys soil – so much so it can take 30 years for reclaimed land to be able to sustain a new cocoa farm. Miners will usually dig near water bodies, which is the same place cocoa grows.
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