Audit: Three mine lessees owe US$13.7 million in penalties for unrehabilitated land
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Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has disclosed that three mine lessees owed penalties to the Mines and Geology Department (MGD), totalling US$13.7 million, for failing to rehabilitate 264.14 hectares of mined-out land. For years some members of parliament in constituencies where significant mining takes place have complained bitterly that large areas which have been mined-out remain in that state for extended periods without rehabilitation by the companies responsible for the mining.