In the Wake of Coup, Gold Mining Boom Is Ravaging Myanmar
2022年5月3日 · Reaching Bhamo, a town on the banks of the Irrawaddy, Myanmar’s longest river, he began mining gold and earning $4 per day. He uses a generator-powered pump to suction up sediment, then sends it through a sluice tray before adding mercury — which he handles barehanded — to extract gold.
In the Wake of Coup, Gold Mining Boom Is Ravaging Myanmar
2022年5月3日 · In the Wake of Coup, Gold Mining Boom Is Ravaging Myanmar. With a military junta retaking power last year, a gold rush is increasingly despoiling rivers in the Myanmar state of Kachin, polluting water with mercury, destroying riverbanks and farmland, and disrupting the traditional way of life of the region’s ethnic groups.
Gold-rich area of northern Myanmar ‘like a desert’ as post-coup mining …
2022年9月28日 · Unrestricted mining along the Uru River in Myanmar’s north since last year’s coup has depleted the area of gold and destroyed the landscape, locals and environmental advocates said. Following the military’s ousting of the elected administration in February 2021, mining companies have reportedly been bribing the Myanmar army to gain access ...
Gold mining devastating forest reserve in Myanmar’s south
2023年10月2日 · A drone image captured the rampant gold mining in Zimbar Creek within Myanmar’s southern Tanintharyi Nature Reserve in 2019. Recent satellite images from 2023 reveal that the mining activity has tripled, causing significant harm …
Fuelling the future, poisoning the present: Myanmar’s rare earth …
2024年5月23日 · Transition minerals. Myanmar. In 2022, a Global Witness investigation revealed a shocking reality at the heart of the green energy transition. Unregulated mines in Myanmar had become an essential source of heavy rare earth elements (HREE), vital ingredients for the magnets used in electric vehicles (EV) and wind turbines worldwide.
‘Afraid of the gun’: Military coup fuels Myanmar resource grab
2022年12月14日 · Since the military coup, however, gold mining has reached unprecedented levels, local activists say. At Myitsone, which forms the start of Myanmar’s longest river, the Ayeyarwady, the ...
Illegal gold mining up ten-fold in Kachin state since Myanmar …
2023年4月26日 · Illegal gold mining has increased ten-fold in Myanmar’s Kachin state since the military seized power in a coup more than two years ago, a new report and sources said, amid a decrease in...
Deadly Myanmar mine disaster caused by poor planning, say …
2021年6月29日 · Mining of jade, largely for jewellery and carvings destined for China, has exploded in Myanmar in recent years. About 400,000 miners scavenge jade from the slopes of open-pit mines, often with...
Illegal gold mines operate unchecked in Myanmar’s Kachin …
2021年12月4日 · Illegal gold mine operations have run unchecked in the capital of Myanmar’s Kachin state since the military seized power 10 months ago, raising concerns for villagers who spent years protesting...
International companies implicated in scramble for Shan State’s gold ...
2022年9月14日 · An Australian-led mining company has carried on searching for gold in eastern Shan State more than one year after its primary investor withdrew from multiple projects in the country, Myanmar Now has learned. Locrian Precious Metals, headed by two Australians and one Myanmar national, is active in what the Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF ...