According to one recent study, the mercury found in some of Gunung Botak’s waste sediments was 682 milligrams (mg) a kilogram, compared to 19 to 908 milligrams taken in the 1960s around Japan’s contaminated Minamata Bay, from where the crippling disease associated with mercury poisoning gets its name.
Buru joins other provinces like North Sulawesi, Jambi, Central Kalimantan, North Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi and Lombok where as many as 200,000 people are believed to be suffering from birth deformities and nervous disorders that characterize mercury poisoning.
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