What is it about?
Mercury pollution from gold mining
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Why is it important?
This is the first study to demonstrate that miners using mercury to extract gold can change to a mercury-free method. 37% of the yearly pollution of mercury comes from small scale gold mining.
Perspectives
The study demonstrates that the mercury-free method is doable and by implementing it in more mining communities the global mercury pollution can be reduced considerably
Dr. Rasmus Køster-Rasmussen
University of Copenhagen
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This page is a summary of: Mercury Pollution from Small-Scale Gold Mining Can Be Stopped by Implementing the Gravity-Borax Method – A Two-Year Follow-Up Study from Two Mining Communities in the Philippines, NEW SOLUTIONS A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, October 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1048291115607929.
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