According to the report, the levels of chemicals like mercury used by the miners for gold refinery, recorded in the water bodies revealed very high levels far above World Health Organisation’s (WHO) recommended levels.
It indicated that mercury vapour through inhalation could cause memory and speech loss, numbness, vision problem, convulsion and in some cases death.
The report explained that the miners used greater quantities of mercury to wash their gold in their bid to extract all available gold and that was dangerous since it exposed the miners to inhale contaminated soil, tailing, stream sediments and water close to the processing sites.
http://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2013/08/07/wassa-amenfi-cries-for-clean-water/
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