Small-scale gold mining suffers from mismanagement of resources, a lack of adequate infrastructure and technical capacities (resulting in low gold recovery), and from the volatility of international market prices, and is negatively affected by weak local institutions. Ongoing mining practices in the region damage the environment in the form of deforestation and water pollution, and the burning of mercury to recover minute pieces of gold mixed in sand and sediments damages the nervous, digestive and immune systems of those who inhale the vapor.
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