The dates displayed for an article provide information on when various publication milestones were reached at the journal that has published the article activities on preceding journals at which the article was previously under consideration are not shown (for instance submission All content on this site: Copyright © 2025 Elsevier B.V. has temporarily stopped operations while the company brings in bigger machines to exploit poorer seams But women with babies on their backs are busy sifting through the red soil while a young man down a narrow hole strikes the earth with a pickaxe “They don’t think about the risk of an accident,” says a security guard astride a motorbike the guard has been hired to disperse the amateur gold diggers they’ll blame the Chinese,” he said “Even when someone is buried when their hole collapses people come back the following day.” “We live with the risk,” said local resident Daoudou Denis dismissively the gold rush has been “an ecological disaster” for the region deforestation and altered watercourses have swept away important parts of the ecological mix “People did a lot of fishing on mining territory The waterways have silted up,” Chekoua said “There is no more arable land,” said Michel Pilo plantain and cassava which used to be grown locally now come from far away — the areas where they used to be cultivated have been razed for mining The Betare Oya district should have collected more than 850 million CFA francs (1.3 million euros $1.6 million) in mining royalties since 2014 but had received nothing to date Tags and website in this browser for the next time I comment