alchemist21Jun 25, 20211 minShould gold mining be considered an impact investment?Globally, there’s an increasing shift of funds towards responsible and ethical investments, with 98% of institutional investors already...
Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)Jun 24, 20212 minLeaching gold with cassava: An option to eliminate mercury use in artisanal gold mining.| Journal of Cleaner Production | Volume 311, 15 August 2021, 127531 | | P. Torkamana, M. M. Veiga, L. R. P. de Andrade Lima, L .A....
alchemist21Jun 16, 20211 min30 Years of the GEFThirty years ago, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) was established to tackle the world’s most challenging environmental issues. With...
alchemist21Jun 12, 20211 minTrillion Trees: Amazon Bioeconomy ChallengeThis Challenge calls for innovative bioeconomy projects in the Amazon Forest that protect and restore biodiversity and ecosystem...
alchemist21Feb 10, 20212 minECUADOR TAILINGS DISCHARGE POLLUTES THE CALERA RIVER WATERS - IN PERU THE CONSEQUENCES ARE SUFFERING#Ecuador Contamination #InPerspective. For decades the waters of the Calera River and the Yellow River have been contaminated due to the...
alchemist21Feb 10, 20211 minPortovelo-Zaruma Artisanal Mining: Poverty Driven DestructionAn overview of the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) practices used in Portovelo, Ecuador. The short film shows how miners...
alchemist21Feb 10, 20211 minAir pollution kills 600,000 children each year according to the WHO.Exposure to toxic air both indoors and out kills some 600,000 children under the age of 15 each year, the World Health Organization...
alchemist21Feb 10, 20211 minAir pollution’s devastating impact on children’s healthEvery day around a staggering 93% of the world’s children under the age of 15 years breathes air that is so polluted it puts their health...
alchemist21Feb 10, 20211 minToxic air will shorten children's lives by 20 months, study reveals.The life expectancy of children born today will be shortened by 20 months on average by breathing the toxic air that is widespread across...
alchemist21Feb 9, 20211 minPortovelo-Zaruma Artisanal Miners March for Better Working ConditionsAlchemy Mining Group, Inc. (“AMGI”) an Innovation Provider to #MakeMercuryHistory in ASG miner's gold ore processing. "Profit proudly...
alchemist21Jan 23, 20211 minMicroplastics Found in Placentas of Pregnant WomenNew research published in the journal Environment International found evidence of microplastics in the human placenta. Researchers called...
alchemist21Jan 15, 20212 minMercury (II) Binding Activity of Vegetable and Fruit Juices: Identifying Potential Detoxifying JuiceArtisanal gold mining is known to cause high levels of mercury (Hg) contamination to human populations, due mainly to many miners burning...
alchemist21Jan 15, 20211 minSpecial Report: Sleeping Beauty - How suspect gold reached top brandsLA RINCONADA, Peru (Reuters) - From the Andes mountains, thousands of artisanal gold-diggers for years sent fragments of metal to a Swiss...
alchemist21Jan 15, 20211 minTrading mercuryIn 2012, the global trade in mercury reached a peak of US$210 million. Four thousand and forty tonnes of the element—used in everything...
alchemist21Jan 15, 20211 minAir pollution can reach the placenta around a developing babyA study of women in Belgium found black carbon particles, or soot, within the organ. Breathing in polluted air may send soot far beyond a...
Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)Jan 7, 20212 minMercury has an atmospheric lifetime of around a year University of Oxford earth scientists report | University of Oxford | Influencing global policy on mercury University of Oxford earth scientists with diverse expertise have combined...
alchemist21Jan 6, 20212 minUK Super Rock Star Robbie Williams 'almost died' from mercury poisoning over seafood habitRobbie Williams has shared a fishy tale about his brush with death caused by a seafood diet. The Angels singer, 46, said that he’d been...