Zimbabwe’s toxic gold rush: how would-be treasure hunters are causing ecological disaster

 They are clogging and redirecting streams with dams and waste materials or “tailings”. And worst of all, they are poisoning water-sources with the neuro-toxin mercury, endangering not only their own lives but the lives of all those who live nearby.

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