Sie können Ihre Einstellungen jederzeit ändern. The money to be made at all levels of the industry, from laborers knee-deep in mud to executive officers reaping thousands of dollars a day, creates powerful incentive to find gold—even though doing so may now be harder than ever. Terms of Use

More than 50 people are dead after landslides collapsed three artisanal gold mines near the town of Kamituga in eastern Congo's South Kivu province on Friday, officials said. Artisanal mining quarries are often unsafe in eastern Congo and the Kasai region.

Diwa Honoré, who survived the tragedy, said more than 50 people had been in the three mines, which are about 50 meters (54 yards) deep. The Grasberg Mine, in Indonesia, is one of the largest gold mines in the world and is owned by American company Freeport McMoRan. Media reports (from Daily Graphic, Ghanaian Times, Ghana News Agency, Chronicle, Daily Guide, Accra Mail, and My Joy On-line) from the period 2007 to 2012 provided some information on type of mining in which accidents occurred, and the underlying causes of accidents. Dumper corner navigation fail Wrong turn, mate… And now what? "Its half-life is brief in the presence of sunlight.". Lust for Gold Is Consuming Precious South American Forests, The Devastating Costs of the Amazon Gold Rush, the list of retailers aligned in their opposition, to produce enough raw gold to make a single ring, 20 tons of rock and soil are dislodged, causes chemical reactions that produce sulfuric acid, hundreds of tons of airborne elemental mercury every year, a recent survey released by National Jeweler, aborers knee-deep in mud to executive officers reaping thousands of dollars a day, has reported that 40 percent of watershed headwaters in the western United States, is one of the largest gold mines in the world, dumps its waste into the ocean near the island of Sumbawa, The Cute-but-Deadly Slow Loris Reserves Its Flesh-Rotting Venom for Its Peers, Two British Teens Using Metal Detectors Discovered 1,000-Year-Old Coins, Remnants of Woodland Iroquois Village Discovered in Ontario, The Myth That Washington Was a Swamp Will Never Go Away, Sacrificed Llamas Found in Peru Were Likely a Gift From the Inca.

California Do Not Sell My Info The Nature of Gold. “A team of rescuers with motor pumps came to recover the bodies of the victims.”. This, he explains, makes the energy required to mine that gold—and the waste and pollution produced in the process—proportionally greater and greater. Damit Verizon Media und unsere Partner Ihre personenbezogenen Daten verarbeiten können, wählen Sie bitte 'Ich stimme zu.' While the EPA struggles to remediate and restore almost countless mine sites in the United States, and while activists work to stem the tide of demand on the gold industry, efforts are underway to develop more open pit mines. "It's feasible, but consumers need to think about the impacts they have when they buy jewelry.". Some states have strict—and effective—regulations on the handling of mine waste and runoff, Webster says.