BAMAKO, Mali: A landslide engulfed a group of mainly women gold miners in Mali, killing several of them, the governor\u2019s office of the Koulikoro region in the West African country said Thursday.
\nIn a statement broadcast on Mali\u2019s national television, Koulikoro\u2019s governor, Col. Lamine Kapory Sanogo, said \u201cthe women (gold miners) were numerous at an excavation in search of gold, and the excavation was surrounded by a dike that gave way and water entered with mud and engulfed the women.\u201d
\nThe office of the governor said the landslide at the artisanal gold mine in southern Mali happened on Wednesday. It said several of the miners were killed but did not provide a number.
\nThis is not the first time such accidents have occurred at a gold mine in Mali, which is known as one of the three gold producing countries in Africa. In January last year, an unregulated gold mine collapsed in Mali, killing more than 70 people near the capital Bamako.
\nIn recent years, there have been concerns that profits from unregulated mining in northern Mali could benefit extremists active in that part of the country.
\nThe region of this latest collapse, however, is far to the south of that and closer to Bamako.
\n\u201cGold is by far Mali\u2019s most important export, comprising more than 80 percent of total exports in 2021,\u201d according to the International Trade Administration with the US Department of Commerce. It says more than 2 million people, or more than 10 percent of Mali\u2019s population, depend on the mining sector for income.
\nArtisanal gold mining is estimated to produce around 30 tons of gold a year and represents 6 percent of Mali\u2019s annual gold production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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