He explains how he uses mercury to absorb gold from the already crushed rock cores as the only method known to the small-scale miners but have dire consequences on environment and health of the local community.
Nyakinye said local miners’ dumps waste with high concentration of mercury on open lands which then vaporized while others absorbed into the soil.
This he said is dangerous has it find way into water bodies where human beings drink it or inhaled the contaminated air.
“Mercury is a heavy metal and its heavy consumption can lead to cancer and Dioxyribo Nucleic Acid (DNA) mutilation resulting to birth deformities”, he explained.
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