"They are inhaling it and this will affect their nervous, respiratory and immune systems with the toxicity depending on the type of mercury," Mr Okurut told participants at a regional workshop on the development of national action plans for artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Entebbe, yesterday.
Mercury is currently used by artisan gold miners who mixed it with other extracts to form a mercury-gold amalgam. This is later heated to separate gold from the rest of the extracts.
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