Danger and desperation in Myanmar’s jade mines

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    Failure to regulate the jade industry is transforming a landscape and exposing miners to deadly landslides

    Andrew Nachemson, Eaint Thiri Thu

    November 24, 2020

    “The landslide is inevitable. It is a risk, we all know,” said Aye Yi, a 33-year-old who has been working in Myanmar’s jade mines since she was 14. “We don’t know when it will happen. But we know it definitely will at some point.”

    Myanmar’s deadliest mining accident in living memory killed at least 175 people near Hpakant town on 2 July. Informal jade miners were digging through a mound of tailings – earth discarded by digger trucks – when the pile, already weakened by heavy rain, collapsed. The landslide swept dozens of people away as the hillside crashed into the lake below

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    Danger and desperation in Myanmar’s jade mines