Miners’ death: Gold can be found on streets after heavy rainfall in Niger – Bago

Niger State Governor, Umar Bago, has said the authorities is endowed with alluvial golden deposits, noting that golden could beryllium recovered connected the streets aft dense rainfall successful immoderate areas.

Bago made the remark portion speaking connected Channels Television’s Sunday Politics astir the activities of amerciable miners successful the authorities and the challenges of regulating mining operations.

The politician said the authorities authorities had nary broad database of amerciable miners, portion licensed operators would beryllium profiled to find those progressive successful mining activities and assistance support information crossed the state.

“For amerciable mining, there’s nary database. So these radical who are licensed would travel guardant for profiling due to the fact that we privation to cognize who is mining successful Niger State, and that is due to the fact that we request to support the information of our land,” Bago said.

He explained that the miners progressive successful amerciable activities were not lone artisanal miners but besides radical operating successful areas wherever mining was not permitted.

“However, the radical we are talking astir are not conscionable artisanal miners, but they are artisanal and operating successful amerciable spaces.

“These spaces are not allowed for them to do. Probably, somebody, you know, Niger State is endowed, we person alluvial golden everywhere. When it rains heavily, you tin prime golden connected the street, that is given.