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Sight Magazine

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4 months ago

Tackling pollution: Scientists try to prove link between Amazon gold mining and disabilities in babies - Sight Magazine RICARDO BRITO, MANUELA ANDREONI and ADRIANO MACHADO report on new research to examine the impacts of mercury contamination...

Tackling pollution: Scientists try to prove link between Amazon gold mining and disabilities in babies. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Amazon #illegalgoldmining #Indigenouschildren #Munduruku #Brazil #SaiCinza #mercury #mercurycontamination #Fiocruz

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Transparency Advocacy

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11 months ago

In 2024 through a partnership with the GIobal Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, journalists were trained about #illegalmining after which with a grant were able to carry out stories about #illegalgoldmining in Uganda.

Transparency Advocacy

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1 year ago

Kassanda Gold Pits: A Deadly Brew of Child Labor, Mercury, and Illegal Mining :: Uganda Radionetwork

In 2024 through a partnership with the GIobal Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, journalists were trained about #illegalmining after which with a grant were able to carry out stories about #illegalgoldmining in Uganda.

Sight Magazine

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1 year ago

Gang leader 'Tiger' evades South African police after 78 mine deaths - Sight Magazine A suspected gang leader known as "Tiger" escaped after being pulled from an illegal gold mine, the police said on Monday.

Gang leader ‘Tiger’ evades South African police after 78 mine deaths @sightmagazine.bsky.social #SouthAfrica #Stilfontein #illegalgoldmining #SouthAfricanPolice

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Sight Magazine

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1 year ago

South Africa mine rescue ends, anger rises over 78 deaths in police siege - Sight Magazine South African rescuers ended their attempts to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died during a police siege.

South Africa mine rescue ends, anger rises over 78 deaths in police siege @sightmagazine.bsky.social #SouthAfrica #Stilfontein #illegalgoldmining #SouthAfricanpolice #minerescue

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Sight Magazine

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1 year ago

Body count from South African mine siege rises to 60 @sightmagazine.bsky.social #SouthAfrica #illegalgoldmining #Stilfonteingoldmine

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Sight Magazine

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1 year ago

South Africa pulls 36 corpses from illegal mine, arrests 82 survivors - Sight Magazine South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine in two days of operations, police said.

South Africa pulls 36 corpses from illegal mine, arrests 82 survivors @sightmagazine.bsky.social #SouthAfrica #illegalgoldmining #Stilfontein #GwedeMantashe

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Sight Magazine

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1 year ago

Footage shows dozens of dead miners trapped after South Africa police raid @sightmagazine.bsky.social #SouthAfrica #illegalgoldmining #MACUA

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Sight Magazine

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1 year ago

Amazon gold: New technology aids Brazil's crackdown on illicit trade - Sight Magazine RICARDO BRITO and ANTHONY BOADLE report on efforts to trace gold in Brazil as they look to shut down the illegal gold-mining industry.

Amazon gold: New technology aids Brazil’s crackdown on illicit trade. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Brazil #Amazon #Amazongold #illegalgoldmining #wildcatmining #TargetingGold #organisedcrime #LuizInacioLuladaSilva #Lula #JairBolsonaro #goldexports #goldDNA

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