According to planetGOLD, ASGM supplies about 20% of the world’s gold and is an important source of employment for 10-20 million miners in about 80 countries. However, due to limited economic opportunities or a lack of awareness about the dangers, many of these artisanal and small-scale mining operations use toxic mercury to extract their gold. As a result, this sector is the world’s largest anthropogenic source of mercury pollution, the group said in a statement.
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