Gold Mining Ivory Coast - 2

It ? s not the ____________________ time that artisanal ____________________ has helped develop ____________________ and small - scale ____________________ . In the 19thcentury , ____________________ helped establish ____________________ and ____________________ systems , that ____________________ the economies of countries like ____________________ , Australia and South ____________________ . But that shift can come with ____________________ . An hour down the road , in the ____________________ rush town of ____________________ , the environmental and ____________________ costs of Ivory Coast ? s mining ____________________ are becoming ____________________ . Here ____________________ fumes mingle with rumours of a ____________________ there for the ____________________ . A year ago , this was a ____________________ village . Now it ? s a ____________________ town , several ____________________ strong . Yes , all over ____________________ , there used to be ____________________ fields and ____________________ trees . They were all ____________________ to make space for gold . The locals call it ____________________ ( the country ? s capital is called ____________________ ) . Its dense ____________________ and frenetic ____________________ remind them of the country ? s biggest ____________________ . The population grew like ____________________ ? s ; and with this , the economy also became like ____________________ ? s ? says one man . Suddenly everyone was earning ____________________ . This massive open ____________________ is the biggest mine in Isoko . ____________________ of people work in ____________________ to dig out gold ____________________ . Considering the ____________________ scale of the pit , the ____________________ product seems meagre . Look ! He ? s washing out a ____________________ grain ! Of gold ! Toxic ____________________ is used to ____________________ the gold , and is then ____________________ into the ____________________ . This piece of gold is worth about ____________________ dollars . It is ____________________ , dirty work . This pit is ____________________ ; and heavily armed ____________________ guards patrol it . Because it was ____________________ , not long after , it was shut ____________________ . Because the wealth ____________________ here isn ? t ____________________ , it isn ? t being ____________________ back into the ____________________ . Roger Tapé , Chief of ____________________ , a nearby ____________________ says that the way the mining is being ____________________ right now ____________________ that the village gets ____________________ profit from it . Simply the ____________________ get what they can ____________________ . He thinks that revenue from mines like this should go towards ____________________ projects like ____________________ , ____________________ and ____________________ . He says that the ____________________ need a lot of things : running ____________________ , ____________________ , school ____________________ , hospitals . If that were the ____________________ , gold mining would be ____________________ for the population . Back in Yoho ? ____________________ is still a way of life . Federal officials ____________________ that mining can be a ____________________ tool to fight poverty in places like ____________________ . But they have been ____________________ to establish a ____________________ ____________________ for it , leaving the door ____________________ to labour and ____________________ abuses . If mining is going to be a ____________________ for ____________________ in ____________________ ____________________ , the country ? s ____________________ has a ____________________ road ____________________ .