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Friday, October 18, 2024

‘Mercury destroys lives’: but if goldmining is here to stay, is there a way to make it safer?

 Despite the Philippines government banning the use of mercury in small goldmines in 2012, it remains widespread. But a United Nations programme called PlanetGold has selected Paracale as one of a number of sites to trial a new technique of extracting gold from ore without using mercury.

read more... https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/oct/18/philippines-paracale-gold-mining-mercury-environment-united-nations-planetgold

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