Duke researchers have determined that the health risks taken on by artisanal, small-scale gold miners extend far beyond the miners themselves. Not only do the miners’ practices contaminate local soil, sediment and water resources with mercury, they create hazardous levels of the neurotoxin in the food chain at least 350 miles away.
https://globalhealth.duke.edu/media/news/duke-study-finds-devastating-effects-mercury-gold-mines
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