Brilliant Earth, the ethically-sourced fine jewellery retailer, is supporting a project to teach artisanal gold miners in the Peruvian rainforest how to mine without mercury. The miners traditionally use toxic mercury to bind fragments of gold together, then burn them — releasing the mercury into the air and leaving the gold behind. The programme, run by charity Pure Earth, will benefit an association of 400 miners in Huepetuhe, an area placed under a state of emergency last year due to mercury contamination, and where mining activity has taken over more than 100 sq km of rainforest.
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