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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Mercury poisoning and Artisanal gold mining

Researchers from the UPM have characterized the health risks derived from the usage of mercury in artisanal gold mining in Colombia through probabilistic models.

Artisanal gold mining is common in Latin-American regions, Africa and Southeast Asia where there are large socio-economic inequalities and active or abandoned goldfields.
http://mqworld.com/article.php?id=17123 

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