Sentence examples for illegal miners from inspiring English sources

If upriver the illegal miners keep operating?

It was an open secret that illegal miners enjoyed political cover bought with illicit donations.

How much is taken by garimpeiros, illegal miners, no one knows.

Analysts in Ghana said the government had little choice but to act against the illegal miners.

There are still many garimpeiros, or illegal miners, operating in the country.

He was a forest leader permanently defending his territory and he was eliminated by illegal miners.

The guerrillas and the Venezuelan military, he complains, both exploit the illegal miners, "taxing" them in gold.

The document asks the Venezuelan and Brazilian authorities to work together to stop the encroachment of illegal miners.

The illegal miners, tens of thousands of them, Venezuelan and foreign, are not only taking gold but ravaging the forest.

But illegal miners rob gold, tungsten and cobalt from the ground beneath reservations, feeding profits to paramilitary groups.

"Apart from the security threat that is posed by the weapons that [illegal miners] wield, we even also have issues of human security," he said.