Globally, there’s an increasing shift of funds towards responsible and ethical investments, with 98% of institutional investors already...

Mercury pollution from artisanal gold mining causes severe environmental and health problems, especially to operators and people living...

This Challenge calls for innovative bioeconomy projects in the Amazon Forest that protect and restore biodiversity and ecosystem...

#Ecuador Contamination #InPerspective. For decades the waters of the Calera River and the Yellow River have been contaminated due to the...

An overview of the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) practices used in Portovelo, Ecuador. The short film shows how miners...

Alchemy Mining Group, Inc. (“AMGI”) an Innovation Provider to #MakeMercuryHistory in ASG miner's gold ore processing. "Profit proudly...

The city of Minamata, Japan, is dotted with monuments commemorating victims of an industrial mass poisoning decades ago. High in the...

Artisanal gold mining is known to cause high levels of mercury (Hg) contamination to human populations, due mainly to many miners burning...

LA RINCONADA, Peru (Reuters) - From the Andes mountains, thousands of artisanal gold-diggers for years sent fragments of metal to a Swiss...

In 2012, the global trade in mercury reached a peak of US$210 million. Four thousand and forty tonnes of the element—used in everything...