Ghana’s western pocket is a hotbed for unlawful gold mining, referred to as galamsey. It’s destroying the rustic’s woodland reserves and polluting rivers that locals virtue for ingesting aqua. The BBC has found out that aqua round unlawful mining websites comprise round 500 occasions extra mercury than the Global Condition Organisation tenet for cover ingesting aqua. However why are the miners the usage of this extremely poisonous chemical realizing the hurt it reasons?

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