Mining and the Environment: Tanzania’s Ongoing Struggle with Small-scale Mining’s Threat to the Natural Environment

  Key environmental impacts associated with ASM in Tanzania include deforestation, use of mercury and cyanide in gold processing, dust and noise pollution, generalized water pollution, soil contamination, failure to reclaim mining areas properly, and/or secure or fill-in mine shafts.

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