‘The mines that we saw that first day were different from the mines I had been studying before,’ she explains. ‘When I was living there the [gold] mines were all traditional mines that didn’t use mercury or cyanide, but in four years … all the local setting of the gold extraction had changed. There were new people and there were big establishments, and they were using these substances that we came to know were mercury and cyanide.’
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