Mercury in Seafood | Should We Really Be Concerned?

 An artisanal or small-scale miner is a subsistence miner who independently mines for minerals without being employed by a larger mining corporation. In parts of South America, Africa, and Asia, many communities mine for gold in this way. A common way of extracting gold from the ore is to combine the impure gold with mercury, creating a gold-mercury amalgam. Once extracted, the gold-mercury amalgam is heated to evaporate the mercury.3

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Gibb, H., & O’Leary, K. G. (2014). Mercury exposure and health impacts among individuals in the artisanal and small-scale gold mining community: a comprehensive review. Environmental health perspectives, 122(7), 667-672.