GOVERNMENT has raised the red flag warning that artisanal and small scale mining exposes mining communities across Ghana to high and potentially dangerous levels of toxic metals such as mercury, arsenic, lead and cadmium.
These toxic metals, the government noted contaminates "our water, soil, sediment and food" and in the process inorganic mercury is also released into the air hence the need for Ghanaians to encourage themselves to strictly adhere to "our" collective environmental policy.
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