Then you have rampant use of mercury. To separate gold from other minerals, miners boil mercury and add sediments. When they’re done with this toxic concoction, up to 50 metric tons of mercury are released into rivers or the atmosphere annually, some leaching into the watershed. The mercury makes its way into fish and, ultimately, into the humans who eat them. According to a 2012 PLOS One study, locals who ate a lot of fish from the mercury-soaked rivers were more than three times as likely to develop mercury poisoning as locals who didn’t eat fish.
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