Mounds of tailings from mineral mining are discarded alongside paddy fields throughout the region.

成堆的矿井尾料被遗弃在稻田旁，整个地区都是这样。

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But the Bank added that poverty reduction was being held back by income inequality and a reliance on mineral and mining exports in some African countries.

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However, these geochemical investigations tended to be focused on the impacts of mining and mineral processing at a national level and in specific mining fields without taking account of the overall impact on larger hydrological and environmental domains across the continent.

UNESCO: EARTH SCIENCES FOR SOCIETY

No other annual convention for mineral exploration and mining draws a crowd of this size.

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