Mercury and Gold

Environmentalists and NGO’s from across the globe have worked assiduously to place mercury as one of the pollutants to the environment that must be eradicated. In many countries, such as neighboring Brazil and Venezuela, mercury pollution has been used by some segments of the society as a useful villain and affected communities have been ignored. Myths and taboos about mercury pollution have created hysteria and promoted hidden interests of economic groups. This enlarged the gap between artisanal miners and organized society and created more illegality, as miners found a way around the reflexive governmental legal reaction of simply banning the use of the substance without seeking to deal with the social problems precipitated
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