Despite the well-known risks of mercury, millions of small-scale gold miners across the globe continue to use the metal to separate gold from ore- usually because they have little other choice. The dangerously toxic mercury vapour is often inhaled by the miners and their families, since these activities are often conducted in their homes or in gold shops that process the amalgam for the miners before buying.
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