Days lost as a result of mercury intoxication from mining

over 650 million days or 15 billion hours of healthy human life lost though small-scale gold mining make up only a tiny fraction of the global mining industry. Artisanal small-scale gold mining is the world’s largest consumer of mercury and the largest source of mercury pollution worldwide.
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