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July 2019

Fariba Alamgir
15th July 2019

Investigating the environmental impacts of artisanal gold mining in Sierra Leone

By Roy Maconachie,Thomas Kjeldsen and Lee Bryant In many African countries, the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector is largely informal, generating pressing environmental and health impacts. Together with colleagues (Dr Solomon Gbanie, Kabba Bangura and Anthony Kamara) from the...