The use of mercury and cyanide in artisanal small-scale mining activities contaminates water bodies and destroys the quality of drinking water in communities and aquatic life. Our solution mitigates this problem because miners would not need or use water in their pre-exploartory activities therefore keeping waterbodies free from such contamination, hence making safe for aquatic life and drinking.

The heavy use of water in washing ore pollutes water bodies and makes them unsafe for consumption. Our solution mitigates this problem because miners would not need or use water in their pre-exploartory activities therefore keeping waterbodies free from such pollution, hence making safe for drinking and consumable usage.

Artisanal small-scale miners work in conditions and engage in activities that lead to unsafe open trenches.These trenches have been shown to correlate with malaria incidents in the country. This endangers the communities. Our solution mitigates this problem because miners would not need to dig these open trenches in their pre-exploratory activities and perhaps abandon them.

Artisanal small-scale mining exposes Ghanaians to several harmful chemicals through drinking from polluted water bodies and inhaling gaseous mercury, which damages the central nervous system. Our solution mitigates this problem because miners would not need or use water in their pre-exploartory activities therefore keeping waterbodies free from such pollution. We hope that many of these conditions that evolve as a result of the dangerous use of harmful chemicals would reduce drastically.