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Wednesday, January 15, 2020

In Indonesia, deadly mercury poisoning isn’t enough to stop outlaw gold miners

The wildcat miner had something to prove: processing gold ore with liquid mercury was perfectly safe. So he drank some of the toxic chemical, choosing the promises of gold fever over the pain of mercury poisoning. “I have no worry about mercury,” brags the fast-talking Syarafuddin Iskandar. “I drank it. We gave it to the cows and the buffaloes. They drank it. Nothing happened. There’s no problem.”
read more... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/indonesia-deadly-mercury-poison-outlaw-gold-miners-a9274196.html

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