Mercury released into streams during gold processing and emitted into the air during heating or “roasting” of gold-mercury amalgams gets bound and recycled in the local environment. Elemental mercury, like the type used in gold mining for amalgamation, is transformed in anaerobic soils and sediments of streams and wetlands into the more toxic organic kind known as methyl mercury.
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