Interview: Pippa Small

But what she really wants to talk about are artisan goldmines. While in Uganda, she saw “quasi-legal” operations and describes how their extraction processes — waste mercury is tipped into rivers — have had appalling consequences for public health. “Miscarriage is very common — blindness, kidney failure, death,” she says. “People with terrible shakes.”
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