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Small miners risky - AngloGold [Africa]
Africa's small-scale gold miners pose major safety and environmental risks and need to increasingly be assimilated into the mainstream industry, a leading gold executive [Bobby Godsell, chief executive of AngloGold Ashanti Ltd] said on Tuesday...Meanwhile, Jonathan Oppenheimer, managing director of De Beers Consolidated Mines, said the Kimberley Process is sharply reducing the use of so-called blood diamonds in the funding of wars and rebel movements in Africa.