Tag: panning
Senegal: Government suspends gold panning along the Falémé River
In Senegal, the government has put a stop to mining activity along the Falémé. A presidential decree, published on Tuesday, August 28, suspends gold panning for three years within a…
around twenty dead in the collapse of a gold panning site
In Mali, around twenty people died in the collapse of a gold mining site. This happened this Saturday, June 8 at the Faranida site, in the Bougouni region, in the…
Guyana: Haut-Maroni still in the fight against illegal gold panning
While Emmanuel Macron goes to Guyana on March 25 to 26, in Haut-Maroni, in the southwest of the department, the situation remains worrying in the face of illegal gold panning.…
Christopher Nolan had to endure the panning of his sci-fi film while playing sports and the video evidence is there
With Oppenheimer, master director Christopher Nolan has once again landed a cinema hit this year. But even the celebrated creator of sci-fi works like Inception and Tenet is not immune…
a GIGN gendarme killed in Guyana during an operation against illegal gold panning
A young French gendarme, member of the elite GIGN intervention unit, lost his life this Saturday March 25 in an operation with the army in Maripasoula, in the Guyana Amazonian…
Gold panning, malaria, deforestation… In Brazil, the slow agony of the Yanomami
Brazil has been in shock since the publication in the press, on January 20, of photos of Amerindian children emaciated due to malnutrition. These images have lifted the veil on…
In Guyana, the village of Saül chooses the path of ecotourism against gold panning
/ Podcasts / Great report Every year, 10 tons of gold are illegally extracted from the soils of French Guiana. Gold mining sites are proliferating in certain municipalities, such as…