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 ...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A global mercury conference in Geneva faced sharp criticism Friday from environmental and Indigenous groups for failing to take stronger steps against mercury use in ...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Peruvian customs officials have seized a record-breaking shipment of illegal mercury, exposing a cross-border smuggling network that is fueling one of the Amazon’s most ...
By Tsitsi Bhobo, Development and Cooperation In Zimbabwe, rising gold prices are fuelling a boom in unregulated small-scale ...
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Mercury, dredges and crime: Illegal mining ravages Peru’s Nanay River
By Enrique Vera On a small airplane, José Manuyama, a professor, frowns and shakes his head with anguish while thousands of ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KEDOUGOU, Senegal (AP) — The quickest way to ...
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