In a related development, Governor Jocel Baac will meet all the mayors particularly those in the municipalities where small-scale mining operates to discuss ways and means of regulating the use of mercury in extracting gold.
Col. Yerson Depayso, commanding officer of the 501st Infantry Brigade, also requested that cyanide contents of rivers be included . “Cyanide is more dangerous than mercury and rivers must also be tested for cyanide content,” he said.
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