Growing Citizens’ Concern on Mercury and Cyanide Contamination on the Environment Amid Gold Plunder in Penhalonga

 The action was informed by on going research by CRD on human rights impacts of gold mining operations around Penhalonga. Information gathered so far shows that there is uncontrolled use of mercury and cyanide in illegal gold hammer mills and cyniadation processing makeshift structures that is seeping into community rivers and areas of human settlement around Penhalonga.

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