Olga González, a gemologist and communications strategist, examines the urgent global challenge of mercury pollution in ...
KEDOUGOU, Senegal (AP) — 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 ...
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Invisible poison: Airborne mercury from gold mining is contaminating African food crops, study warns
In a recent study published in the journal Biogeosciences, scientists have confirmed that mercury pollution from artisanal ...
A drill echoes through narrow tunnels deep within the mountain where miner Hugo Flores bores into rock in search of one of Earth’s most toxic elements. Buried in red stripes of minerals illuminated by ...
As small-scale gold mining increases to meet demand, local crops absorb gaseous mercury emitted by the illegal and semilegal ...
A new study has revealed that mercury pollution from artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) in Nigeria is contaminating ...
A fusion energy startup claims to have found a way to turn mercury into gold. As the Financial Times reports, San Francisco-based Marathon Fusion says that the same process that could one day ...
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