Concerns over mercury use at Solomons gold mine

Transparency Solomon Islands is urging the government to investigate claims that mercury is being used at the gold mine on Guadalcanal.
Gold Ridge is operated by a subsidiary of the owner, the Australian company St Barbara Limited, but Transparency’s chairperson says there are up to 200 illegal miners working in the pits every day.
Ruth Liloqula, who is also a community relations officer for Gold Ridge, says Transparency understands some of the operators are either using or going to get the local miners to use mercury for extraction.
She says that poses enormous risk to the environment.
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