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| A quarry stone mining site in Mutare, Zimbabwe |
Alert Residents in the Eastern border town of Mutare, Zimbabwe have made enough noise to force a Chinese company to withdraw the mining equipment they had set up in Dangamvura Mountain.
The mountain is already suffering from deforestation that left it exposed to weather hazards and erosion.
Residents have cut down all trees thick enough to be used as firewood due to the unreliability of electricity.
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Concerned about the environmental and health hazards posed by the mine, residents piled pressure for the company to stop operations citing the proximity of the mining site to the residential area.
Normally quarry mining includes blasting of rocks and this causes both noise and air pollution.
Another reason the residents piled pressure for the company to stop operations was that the site is near main water pipes supplying the nearby Zimunya and Dangamvura suburbs.
"It clearly shows that miners are just setting up their mines without first obtaining an Environmental Impact Assessment," said another resident who chose to remain anonymous for security reasons.
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