Costa Rica Moves to Jail Illegal Miners for a Decade as Gold Crisis Deepens

Costa Rica’s incoming National Assembly faces an urgent piece of legislation this week that reflects just how badly illegal gold mining has spiraled out of control: a bill that would lock up those responsible for up to ten years and cast the net wide enough to catch everyone from the miners themselves to the truck […] The post Costa Rica Moves to Jail Illegal Miners for a Decade as Gold Crisis Deepens appeared first on The Tico Times | Costa Rica News | Travel | Real Estate .

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