GOLD shines opportunity on artisanal miners to reduce and eliminate mercury use

The vast majority of artisanal miners use mercury to extract gold from ore. While there are cleaner and safer alternative practices and technologies, artisanal miners often ignore the threats that mercury poses to human health and lack the capacity, funds, and incentives to adopt good mining practices.
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