The Environmental Management Agency (EMA) says there is need to raise awareness on mercury use especially among small scale miners and in communities living in mining areas.
Briefing journalists in Harare today, EMA Provincial Manager Harare Metropolitan,
Mr Robson Mavondo said the global mercury project conducted from 2002 to 2015 showed that 70 percent of small scale miners were poisoned with mercury, while 69 percent of children working with mercury and 33 percent of children not working with mercury had chronic mercury intoxication.
“Studies on the environmental and human health assessment identified gold stamp milling centers as the main places of mercury pollution,” he added.
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