New study finds toxic metals in some vegetables grown in galamsey areas

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TheMotherland 1 day ago

...You can take your own.life.with.medicine. ... For.instance.15.tramadol.at.once... ...or.combine.medicine.and.akpeteshie.or.weedicide....

...You can take your own.life.with.medicine. ... For.instance.15.tramadol.at.once... ...or.combine.medicine.and.akpeteshie.or.weedicide....
Kwame Angel 1 day ago

Keep poisoning yourselves. After you make your galamsey money, you will die and we will provide a beutiful coffin, a huge funeral and a beautiful grave (possibly a whole house) for you because you are a rich man.

Keep poisoning yourselves. After you make your galamsey money, you will die and we will provide a beutiful coffin, a huge funeral and a beautiful grave (possibly a whole house) for you because you are a rich man.
Pelicles 23 hours ago

My utmost wish is for the entire world boycotting anything from Ghana and let the greedy fools in Ghana gnash their teeth looking for gold.

Some of us have been saying this since when that sooner than later, our food will ...
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My utmost wish is for the entire world boycotting anything from Ghana and let the greedy fools in Ghana gnash their teeth looking for gold.

Some of us have been saying this since when that sooner than later, our food will be polluted with toxic metals due to indiscriminate galamsey going in Ghana, but the politician said something otherwise because they need the gold.
Kojo Menkah, Bremen. Germany 23 hours ago

These fake research reports should not be encouraged at all. The period of research was not known and snippet of the findings not disclosed and just write up and the reference quoted too doesn't exist. Why political future of ...
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These fake research reports should not be encouraged at all. The period of research was not known and snippet of the findings not disclosed and just write up and the reference quoted too doesn't exist. Why political future of some peoples should be tied to very vile and dangerous propaganda. Which labs conducted the tests? How close to those sites mentioned
Akwasi 23 hours ago

Political stooge, did you ask this question in 2024

Political stooge, did you ask this question in 2024
Dr ZONG WU 23 hours ago

All these toxins in the food chain will lead to an increase in babies being born with autism and AHDH.

All these toxins in the food chain will lead to an increase in babies being born with autism and AHDH.
Asiedu 23 hours ago

Galamseyers use mercury to extract the gold from the gold amalgam. Galamseyers DO NOT use Sodium Cyanide ( Cyanide) because Cyanide rather dissolves gold. Mercury is a LIQUID METAL. It does NOT dissolve in water. Galamseyers ...
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Galamseyers use mercury to extract the gold from the gold amalgam. Galamseyers DO NOT use Sodium Cyanide ( Cyanide) because Cyanide rather dissolves gold. Mercury is a LIQUID METAL. It does NOT dissolve in water. Galamseyers use a little bit of a compound commonly known by Assayers as BORAX to refine (polish) the gold. This involves adding a small amount of borax into a crucible and heating the contents of the crucible to melt the gold which is then poured into moulds to solidify. A little bit of gas is generated. The borax does not chemically contain arsenic. Galamseyers do not use a compound called FLUX. Flux contains Lead in powder form, Silver in powder form among other chemicals. (Note: both lead and silver are collectors of gold. So Mercury forms about 99.5% of chemicals used by galamseyers. The gold bearing ore structure in Obuasi and Prestea contain ARSENIC when in the olden days and up until late 90s, both Obuasi (AGC) and Prestea (SGMC) were using ROSTING PLANTS to urn the arsenic and liberate the gold. So therefore, I find it extremely difficult to hear that galamseyers use cyanide and their activities generates arsenic, lead among other deadly chemicals. Authorities should monitor the COMMERCIAL LABORATORIES doing assaying for the mining companies. The Assay waste these laboratories generate contains high level of other dangerous chemicals such as lead, arsenic etc. How do these COMMERCIAL Laboratories dispose off these wastes? These COMMERCIAL laboratories are in Tarkwa ( two of them), Obuasi and Kumasi and some other parts of the country. The EPA must monitor them. The contamination comes from them and NOT the galamseyers. The writter is a certified ASSAYER who has worked with a number of the mining companies.
Henry 22 hours ago

Thank you Mr. Asiedu for your insight. We are foolish to grow crops around galamsey areas. Grow timber. Timber doesn't care a hoot about any element on the Petiodic Table. What has roofing beams made of wood got to do with ...
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Thank you Mr. Asiedu for your insight. We are foolish to grow crops around galamsey areas. Grow timber. Timber doesn't care a hoot about any element on the Petiodic Table. What has roofing beams made of wood got to do with lead, arsenic, cyanide or mercury. Grow timber not crops. Crops should be grown at Ada
Asiedu 20 hours ago

,*** were using ROASTING PLANTS ....

,*** were using ROASTING PLANTS ....
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Koti 20 hours ago

Sadly, we eat from the same market with people who conducted the study.

Sadly, we eat from the same market with people who conducted the study.
Twe 18 hours ago

GHANA HASN’T SEEN ANYTHING YET , $280 million was injected into the economy last week from where ?

GHANA HASN’T SEEN ANYTHING YET , $280 million was injected into the economy last week from where ?
Ken Ofori A..... 17 hours ago

United States of America. Dey there

United States of America. Dey there
Ayewater 10 hours ago

This puts all of us at risk. How would we know vegetables we buy from the market are safe or contaminated? It’s also not possible for some of us to grow our own vegetables because we don’t have land in our homes. Lord sav ...
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This puts all of us at risk. How would we know vegetables we buy from the market are safe or contaminated? It’s also not possible for some of us to grow our own vegetables because we don’t have land in our homes. Lord save us!
Ghana@80 8 hours ago

This researcher is a big liar. Because of political gains you're tarnishing the image of your own country. Where are your findings. Do you think the mining communities go about spraying mercury on the crows grown...

This researcher is a big liar. Because of political gains you're tarnishing the image of your own country. Where are your findings. Do you think the mining communities go about spraying mercury on the crows grown...

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