A major Gold mining site in the Central Africa Republic has been shutdown due to non compliance with both mining standards and administrative directives.

According to details established by Taarifa investigative desk, Zamboye site collapsed recently killing over 100 workers.

Ruffin Benam Beltoungou, the minister of mines and geology ordered the closure on Saturday.

He said that the closure was due to, “non-compliance with mining standards and non-compliance with administrative directives.”

The Zamboye site was already closed before the accident, but illegal miners still worked there.

“It is obvious and quite natural for the minister to take this decision, but the illegal gold miners were mining outside the legal framework,” Quentin Ngbouando, leader of the civil society organization, I Gwe, said.

Disasters of this form are common in mineral rich central African nation.

Meanwhile, a significant part of the population depends on small-scale extraction mining for livelihood.

Artisanal miners are exposed to high risk because they lack enough protection while regulation of the mines is weak thus leading to deaths.