With placer mining, malaria transmission by mosquitoes is due to the presence of a population of infected miners and stagnant water bodies created by mining (Villar & Schaeffer, 2019). Countries they mention include Peru (Sanchez et al., 2017 ), Brazil (Ferreira et al., 2012 ), French Guiana (Pommier de Santi et al., 2016 ), and …