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Sunday, May 18, 2025

Mercury fuels gold mining in Senegal. And it’s poisoning the people who use it

 The quickest way to separate gold from rock, Sadio Camara says, is with a drop of mercury. She empties a dime-sized packet of the silvery liquid into a plastic bucket of muddy sediment outside her home in southeastern Senegal. With bare hands and no mask, she swirls the mixture as her children look on.

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