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Guinea Says Ebola Spreads to New Regions Near AngloGold Mine

Re: Guinea Says Ebola Spreads to New Regions Near AngloGold Mine

Ebola virus has spread to two new regions, including one with an AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. (ANG) mine

Someone had to write this post: there are thousands of people dead and millions at risk. But now that an area containing a gold mine is infected we should take notice.
 
Re: Guinea Says Ebola Spreads to New Regions Near AngloGold Mine

AngloGold Ashanti in Guinea

...Siguiri, a multiple open-pit oxide gold mine, is AngloGold Ashanti?s sole operation in the Republic of Guinea.

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Siguiri had an average of 3,666 employees in 2011, of whom 1,718 were permanent and 1,948 contractors.

...Growth in the number of artisanal miners operating around
the concession. Economic activity in the region of Siguiri and
the prevailing high price of gold have attracted a significant
number of immigrants from surrounding areas
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Since the mine employees so many people & it is the primary source of wages, any shutdown due to disease would have wide-reaching impacts. I'm not sure if the 1,948 contractors are from out of country or just our of the immediate vicinity. This mine allows some "independent" (artisanal) miners.

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Re: Guinea Says Ebola Spreads to New Regions Near AngloGold Mine


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siguiri_Prefecture

Translation Google

Ebola in a gold mine in Siguiri : 4 dead and four other cases in Doko

Post by Guineematin 28 - October - 2014

This is a story that makes one shudder beyond Siguiri. The sub -prefecture of Doko, hosting gold mines and especially neighboring sister Republic of Mali, is now concerned about the Ebola virus disease whose initial data are alarming: 4 dead and four other cases identified and transferred to the center treatment , according to information received at Guineematin.com

To believe the information, the authorities in the sub-prefecture of Doko (Siguiri Prefecture) would be very worried. Also sensitive to the resurgence of Ebola in Siguiri, the prefect, Cheick Diallo ordered the sub-prefect of Doko, Cheick Simagan Amara, to suspend operations in the gold mines, waiting to learn more, and especially in seeking to better control the chain of contamination Ebola.

Beyond civic concern that the spread of Ebola results in all parts of the Guinean territory, the proximity of the sub-prefecture of Doka of our neighboring Mali and especially the mobility of the communities residing in the two countries make fear a strong risk of exportation of the virus to this country that has always been open and supportive to Guinea, especially in these times of Ebola.

Moussa Diawara Tatakourou

http://guineematin.com/?p=5765
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Ebola in Doko, Siguiri Prefecture: the root of it is a Leone

Post by Guineematin 28 - October - 2014

As announced in a previous dispatch, the Ebola virus disease currently concerned residents, citizens and authorities of Siguiri in general and the sub-prefecture of Doko in particular, which has now recorded four deaths and 4 patients evacuated to the Ebola treatment center at Siguiri center.

According to testimony entrusted to Guineematin.com, the source of the contamination in the "infected" mine would come from Sierra Leone. "This is a Sierra Leone who came to the quest for gold in artisanal operations that died in Doko," said a resident of Siguiri reached by telephone Tuesday, 28 October.

In addition, thousands of Burkinabe have "invaded" Siguiri mines where they are far more numerous than the natives, was pointed out to Guineematin.com; Speaking of risk of propagation of the disease Ebola in other countries of the sub region, if appropriate measures are not taken to control the spread faster.

Moussa Diawara Tatakourou for Guineematin.com

http://guineematin.com/?p=5770
 
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