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Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Illegal Gold Mining Boom Threatens Cocoa Farmers (And Your Chocolate)

Although some small-scale mining operations therefore do have legal permits, many of them don’t, and many partake in illegal activities such as employing foreigners or crews of hundreds, using mercury, or using heavy machinery. To many in the country, the term galamsey has thus now become synonymous with criminality.
read more...https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/ghana-gold-mining-cocoa-environment/

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