“Due the increasing price of gold, small scale artisanal mining interests have been expanding their activities around the world.... [This has resulted in] mining conflicts ...related to land use, discharges of high suspended solids into rivers, the use of mercury, and... the misuse of cyanide...
“In the process of amalgamating concentrates, miners use either pans (manual) or drums with black sugar, to clean the mercury surface. The amalgam typically contains 60% mercury and 40% gold, which is an example of the inefficiency of the squeezing process...
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