Loading ...A separate report says more than 2,300 illegal mining sites now dot the Amazon region of South America, with 245 large-scale projects building “sophisticated infrastructure, tearing down native forests and contaminating rivers with mercury as they dredge for gold and extract diamonds and coltan…used to make mobile phones.”
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South Africa’s gold reserves are being “looted on an industrial scale”, says the country’s Sunday Times, repeating a claim that formally legal sites now worked and subject to murderous turf-wars by ‘Zama zama’ miners leaves $1bn of metal unaccounted for each year in the official trade statistics.