Editorial Comment: Rein in re-emerging gold panner menace

Sites of illegal gold panning have become arenas of high rates of crimes, and record increases in numbers of school drop outs, lured by the “instant riches” of illegal gold panning. So are commercial sex workers.

Poison residues such mercury and cyanide in rivers has led to deaths of principally animals and aquatic life, but human beings too.

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