A new study shows that mercury from wildcat gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon is accumulating in the bodies of miners and other people in Peru’s southeastern Madre de Dios region. The analysis of mercury in hair samples reinforces a study by Peruvian health officials in 2010, which found high levels of mercury in some miners’ urine.
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