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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

As gold prices surge, Ghana faces ‘looming crisis’ over illegal mining

  They use toxic chemicals such as mercury and cyanide to separate the gold from the ore, and those chemicals flow into rivers that hundreds of communities depend on for drinking and domestic use. Some people say they earn about $70 to $100 a day.

read more... https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/1/22/as-gold-prices-surge-ghana-faces-looming-crisis-over-illegal-mining

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