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Wednesday, December 4, 2019

The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage

But that effort has backfired in Indonesia, where illicit backyard manufacturers have sprung up to supply wildcat miners and replace mercury that was previously imported from abroad. Now, Indonesia produces so much black-market mercury that it has become a major global supplier, surreptitiously shipping thousands of tons to other parts of the world.
read more... https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/09/world/asia/indonesia-mercury-pollution-gold-mining.html

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