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Gold Mining Companies in Ghana Take Land, Poison Water

Monday, January 10th, 2011

Earlier last year, we wrote about a cyanide spill at the Ahafo mine in Ghana. That incident, apparently, was hardly an isolated case. A recent human rights report describes a broad pattern of irresponsible and unethical business practices by gold mining companies operating in Ghana. The report, by a team of human rights observers from [...]