An important sector that will benefit from the peace will be the extraction industries, especially the gold mining industry. During the years of conflict, the gold industry was plagued by internal criminal activity with unlicensed illegal mines bringing in approximately $7bn per year for armed groups and other criminal factions. The illegal mining also damaged the environmentthrough polluting the water with substantial amounts of mercury used to separate gold from other minerals.
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