Aladdin Separation Technologies : National Consultative Dialogue on Small Scale Mining ends with resolve to fight illegal mining

The Dialogue again noted, with extreme concern, the preponderance of illegal

small scale mining, popularly referred to as Galamsey, which has caused the worst forms of

pollution and contamination of our water bodies, in a lot of instances the turbidity rendering

them unsuitable for traditional domestic use and even for treatment by the water company,

and sometimes made toxic with chemicals like mercury and cyanide; degradation of lands,

in many cases leaving numerous uncovered, dangerous water-filled pits scattered over the

landscape, making it unsuitable for agricultural or any other uses as well as unsafe for

both human and animal occupation, and (c) atmospheric pollution, laden with dust, smoke,

and chemical pollutant like mercury fumes.

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