The activity, which in great part is informal and illegal, has detrimental impacts on rainforest habitat & biodiversity. Most importantly, gold mining in this region has largely relied on the use of mercury (Hg) as a vehicle to capture gold particles that are within river sediments. Because of this chemical process, mercury has entered the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems’ trophic chain.
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