“I know it is dangerous to touch mercury with my bare hands, but what do I do? I need the gold to sell and put some food on the table. I’ll deal with my health when it incapacitates me,” she says as she washes the ore she has collected.
While large-scale mines have replaced mercury, one of the top ten chemicals of major public health concern, with more efficient and less environmentally damaging techniques, smaller-scale gold diggers continue to use it routinely.
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