Gold, greed, poison: How illegal mining is polluting Mozambique's rivers

 Driven by hope for a better life, they pay little attention to environmental protections and related concerns, as they employ toxic chemicals such as mercury, cyanide and arsenic to extract gold from rock and sediment.

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