Post subject: Mining has devastated the landscape in Myanmar
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2015 12:27 pm
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National Jeweler wrote:
News of scores of deaths from a landslide near a Myanmar jade mine over the weekend comes during a spate of recent media attention to the dangerous conditions threatening poor rural people seeking hope in the $31 billion-a-year industry. Large-scale miners controlling the industry have devastated the landscape, reports the New York Times, which quotes one activist: “Their legacy to local people is a dystopian wasteland in which scores of people at a time are buried alive in landslides.”
Post subject: Re: Mining has devastated the landscape in Myanmar
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2015 3:30 pm
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Joined: Wed Sep 02, 2015 10:52 pm Posts: 1131 Location: Central Queensland, Australia
Very sad Mining can be dangerous enough here but miners in the developing world face exploitative conditions where health and safety standards are few and environmental concerns non-existent.
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