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Friday, February 9, 2024

Ivory Coast: water pollution from illegal gold mining reaches 80% mark

 This assessment once again sounds the alarm against this practice, as the consequences are growing in the West African country. Mercury contamination is concentrated along aquatic food chains, reaching particularly high concentrations in the flesh of carnivorous fish.The result is contamination of local populations, who consume these aquatic vertebrates as part of their daily diet.

read more... https://www.afrik21.africa/en/ivory-coast-water-pollution-from-illegal-gold-mining-reaches-80-mark/

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