Liberia’s largest gold miner repeatedly spilled dangerous chemicals, records show

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JIKANDOR, Liberia (AP) — For generations, families in Jikandor village fished and drank from the river that runs through Liberia ’s dense rain forest. Now toxic pollution is making them leave. They blame the largest gold miner in Liberia, Bea Mountain Mining Corporation. When dead fish float to the surface, they said, they know to tell authorities. But for years there has been little response. “If we don’t move, we will die,” village chief Mustapha Pabai said. Over several years, cyanide,

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