Sentences with phrase «illegal gold mining»

Reportedly, Nigeria is losing as much as 1.4 billion dollars in activities surrounding the illegal gold mining.

Morning summary: Australia to face more extreme weather say researchers; Newspapers in Australia cast doubts on climate change; Illegal gold mining in Peru increased Amazon deforestation by 400 %

Nature isn't the only victim of Illegal gold mining.

Illegal gold mining is a growing problem in Colombia, where 80 % of gold is mined unlawfully, with devastating impacts on the environment — including deforestation and contamination of water sources.

Co-author Ernesto Raez Luna, Senior Advisor to the Minister, Peruvian Ministry of the Environment, remarked: «Obtaining good information on illegal gold mining, to guide sound policy and enforcement decisions, has been particularly difficult so far.

«In some areas, there's rapid social change due to the rapid growth of illegal gold mining,» Jones says; when one person, often an outsider, shoots a lemur and isn't harmed, others follow suit.

He recalls one incident when his group spotted 11 hectares of forest loss in Peru, accompanied by extensive dredging — signs of an illegal gold mining operation.

She appealed the District Assemblies to act decisively to stop the destruction of cocoa farms through illegal gold mining.

In all, a personal observation showed that about 96 water bodies combined in Ashanti, Brong Ahafo, Central, Eastern and Western Regions have been contaminated with lead, mercury and cyanide chemicals which are being used for illegal gold mining operations in 2013/2014 periods.

Finally, rregulating illegal gold mining companies into the formal sector is important.

The Rush for Gold through illegal gold mining has led to the destruction of majority of water bodies in Ghana leading to the increase in morbidity across all regions selected for this study.

The rise in search for gold has led to the establishment of several illegal gold mining firms across the country.

In Suriname, most illegal gold mines are located near roads.

Not exact matches

Aurora Gold Limited has unveiled a strong March quarterly performance on a number of fronts in spite of illegal squatters hampering output on some of its mines in Indonesia.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

The Friday, May 26, 2017 edition of National Red Friday comes with renewed energy for the coalition to tighten the knot in fighting the menace, especially, in the face of the stunning revelation that the country lost $ 7 billion worth of gold to illegal mining in 2016.

Illegal workers have invaded the farm of former Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe to mine for gold.

This according to him, will curb illegal mining (Galamsey), which has become rampant in many gold mining areas of the country.

The hiss of oxygen cuts through the diesel rumble, the walls of the office vibrate with explosions two levels below; war - torn and half - forgotten, these miners» physical struggle finds its mirror a continent away — in the tropical heat of an illegal Surinamese gold mine.

Justices ordered the immediate eviction of every person conducting illegal logging, poaching and gold mining inside Corcovado National Park.

Unfortunately many credit institutions are known to finance some rather un-TreeHuggeresque activities (like illegal logging and dirty gold mining), so even though the end (product) is good, the means (credit) we use to get there isn't so great.

While Acre has been able to make many initiatives toward sustainable development, across the border in much poorer Madre de Dios (Mother of God) it's an often violent confrontation over illegal logging of mahogany and / or «informal mining» in an out - of - control race to grab valuable resources that I covered in my post focusing on the gold rush in Peru.

Peru has come under fire as a country where some of the worst deforestation of the Amazon is taking place as a result oil drilling, gold mining, illegal logging and land clearance for farms.

The devastating attack is believed to be revenge for recent initiatives to fight illegal elephant poaching and gold mining in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve.

A small community, far from Venezula's Orinoco Mining Arc, discovers gold, leading to an incursion by illegal miners, environmental devastation and an allegedly deadly army raid.