That I took from a miner I met in Canyon Diablo.

The Panel has received reports from UNMIL that clashes between rival groups of diggers armed with machetes have occurred close to the border with Sierra Leone.

Sapo, Liberia's only national park, has been invaded by more than 4,000 illegal gold miners and bushmeat hunters.

It is also proposed that in 2007, a workshop will be held on the geological model and prospectors' guide, specifically to examine the results of the project with project participants and independent experts.

Illegal mining is a business behind which are the gold and diamond transnationals that arm them, provide them with machinery and build landing strips in the forest.

The group also requested a meeting with representatives of contractors within the first two months of the project's initiation to establish the nature and extent of the data and information that would be provided by contractors and the schedule of delivery, as well as to ascertain the involvement of contractors in establishing the geological model and prospector's guide.