This child lives in a world where mercury is often viewed as an acceptable laxative –the incredible weight of mercury essentially pushes everything out of your digestive tract.
Mercury has been used in gold mining since the time of the Incas. But the releases that we are seeing now are devastating. Unfortunately, there is little knowledge in the mining camps about how to properly handle mercury. Miners hold mercury in their bare hands and mix the toxic metal into buckets of dirt with their bare feet.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/april/peru-gold-mining-040312.html
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/april/peru-gold-mining-040312.html
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