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Images showing the site in Mali where a tunnel of a gold mine collapsed, killing at least 70 people according to local sources. IMAGES
Relatives of miners wait for news outside the La Esperanza gold mine after a fire killed 27 workers in a remote area of the Arequipa region in southern Peru. A short circuit caused the fire, which broke out in a tunnel inside the mine, according to police and the public prosecutor's office. IMAGES
A rescue operation is underway in Zimbabwe's town of Bindura, after at least 40 informal miners were trapped underground following the collapse of a shaft in a disused gold mine. IMAGES
Alto Alegre (Brazil), Jul 11 ??(EFE) (Camera: Alba Santandreu / Joedson Alves / Sesai) .- The Yanomami land is an infinite horizon of untouched jungle, but from the sky the wounds opened by the gold rush are visible. Illegal miners have spread across Brazil's largest indigenous territory and are now threatening to spread old and new diseases, such as malaria and COVID-19.FOOTAGE OF THE YANOMAMI LAND AND COMMUNITIES WHO LIVE IN IT.SOUNDBITES AND TRANSLATIONS OF:EDUARDO YEKUANA, LEADER OF THE WAIKAS VILLAGE:"We are very worried because of the 'garimpos' (non-official miners) because they are contaminating our rivers and bringing diseases."JOAO RIBAMAR, RESIDENT OF A VILLAGE IN THE SURUCUCU REGION (speaking non-native Portuguese):"Dirty water, humid rain, dirty water, ill women, children drink water and have diarrhoea, worms, stomach worms, coughs and sore throats.""There's no river, just small streams, there's no big fish, there's hunger.""I bless it when it comes, when the river gives me food, fish, when I hunt, when women get shrimp.""There's a lot of malaria, a lot of illnesses."
At least 23 illegal gold miners are feared dead in Zimbabwe after two disused shafts flooded in a mining town 145 kilometres (90 miles) south-west of the capital Harare.
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