The environmental impacts on forests and biodiversity related to the land tenure of extractive activities are mobilising many of the communities bordering the sites, as was the protest movement that led to the recent suspension of the Alamos Gold mining project at Kirazli in Turkey. Waste treatment techniques have sadly made news headlines with the rupture of the Brumadinho mining dam in 2019, with the dumping of 12 million m3 of mud causing the death of at least 259 people. Not to mention the daily environmental and health devastation caused by illegal gold panning using mercury, despite its ban, notably by the EU.
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