Community without solidarity: mercury pollution from small-scale mining and Colombia's crisis of authority

Colombia is the highest per capita emitter of mercury pollution in the world. Ground-level concentrations of atmospheric mercury from small-scale mining in Antioquia, Colombia, are so high that experts fear an environmental health crisis worse than any caused by mercury since Minamata, Japan, in the mid-twentieth century. Gold mining is Colombia's fastest growing industry.
http://cdj.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/05/15/cdj.bst027.short