Mercury : Almost everyone knows the devastating effect of mercury pollution on ecosystems and humans. A team of about eight mining workers, as I described in the previous section can use a week several liters of mercury . This entirely mercury ends in the forest floor , either directly during the amalgamated in the drum or in vapor form during the combustion of the mercury-gold mixture (and hence, by condensation, back to ground). Given the large number of aquifers, underground streams and rivers found in the Peruvian Amazon, I would say that the ecological disaster has dyes tragedy . In addition, workers often live in illegal mining camps along the extraction area, so breathe mercury vapor constantly bathe in water with high concentration of metal liquid and generally are exposed to large amounts of mercury for months or years.
http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/profiles/blogs/my-experience-in-an-illegal-gold-camp-in-peru-09-17-2012
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