Mercury, a highly toxic chemical, has been extensively used in gold mining in Myanmar despite the health and environmental risks it poses. Miners mix the chemical barehanded with gold dust to create an amalgam, which is heated up at a later stage to evaporate the mercury and obtain solid gold.
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