Barber stated that some 600 tons of mercury are released each year in Indonesia alone - more than the total mercury contamination in Japan's Minamata Bay outbreak in the 1950s which left 1,700 dead and thousands more with neurological damage from mercury wastes.
"During amalgamation the metallic mercury evaporates [and] some of the vapour is inhaled by people working in the vicinity and may over time cause irreparable damage to their brains," states Peter W.U. Appel and Jesper Bosse Jønsson, in a fact sheet for the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS).
“Methylated mercury is water soluble and enters the food chain causing serious damage to humans who are at the top of the food chain.
"Methylated mercury is extremely harmful to the central nervous system, where it causes tremors, difficulty in walking, tunnel vision, psychological problems and eventually, death. There is no cure for permanent mercury poisoning."
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