issues still outstanding and needing urgent attention include: technical continuous education and training, the provision of health and social insurance cover, decentralisation of markets to help curb illicit dealings by cutting off unnecessary exploitative intermediaries who are the main culprits in smuggling, while at the same time ensuring that miners get good profits for their produce and finally, protecting the environment from mercury pollution, cyanide pollution, acid mine drainage, river siltation, erosion and deforestation, landscape destruction and cultural heritage damage.
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