Ending the toxic use of mercury in gold mining
Update: 2025-11-18
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One of the biggest culprits of mercury pollution is small-scale gold mining, where mercury is used to separate gold from rock and soil. The problems this causes for the environment and for the health of gold miners is especially easy to see in South America, where small-scale gold mining has taken off. The World's partners at the Deutsche Welle, DW, program "Living Planet" looks into some of the projects in Peru aimed at reducing the problem. Kathleen Schuster reports.
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