Indigenous children in Peru’s southeastern Amazon, an
area where tens of thousands of illegal gold miners operate, have unsafe
mercury concentrations over three times the level of their non-native
counterparts, a study has found.
The artisanal gold
miners, who use mercury to extract the precious metal from river silt,
dump more than 30 tonnes of the toxic metal in rivers and lakes in the
Amazon region every year.
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