Most of their activities are normally done alongside water bodies and deep into the forest. Mercury, a poisonous chemical, is used to recover the gold from the ore, and in the process some spillages occur resulting in drainage of mercury in the water bodies. The most common and dangerous machines they use in the water bodies to wash the gold causing so much havoc and destruction to the rivers is popularly known as ‘changfa’.
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