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Promoting Safe Mining: Government To Supply Mercury-Free Mining Equipment To Small-Scale Miners As part of efforts to sanitize the small scale mining sector and protect the environment, particularly water bodies and forest reserves, the government is making available Mercury-free mining equipment to small-scale Miners. The equipment, with the capacity to recover 90% of gold, according to the Minerals Commission, will encourage environmentally-friendly mining. Handing over the equipment, the Deputy Minister-designate for Lands and Natural Resources, Mireku Duker, said this marks the beginning of Mercury-free mining in Ghana. “I believe adopting it, accepting it and operationalising it in Ghana will go…