Artisanal, often illegal gold-mining, has swept across portions of the Peruvian Amazon over last decade, driven in part by a rising price in gold. The unregulated industry has resulted in widespread deforestation leading to an environmental disaster. But experts have also raised concern over the health of residents in the region due to possible mercury pollution. Now a new study in the Royal Society of Chemistry finds, for the first time, that mercury pollution has moved rapidly downstream and could be impacting communities at least 560 kilometers (350 miles) away from mining sites, in part due to eating mercury-polluted fish.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1237183-gold-mining-endangers-communities-downstream-in-peru/
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