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    Peruvian gold rush turns pristine rainforests into heavily polluted mercury sinks
    Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)
    • Feb 25
    • 2 min

    Peruvian gold rush turns pristine rainforests into heavily polluted mercury sinks

    | Eurek Alert| Peer-Reviewed Publication | | Duke University | 28-Jan-2022 | Scientists record the highest levels of atmospheric mercury...
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    First Person: Telling the tragic story of mercury poisoning in Japan- Minamata(cop)4
    alchemist21
    • Nov 2, 2021
    • 2 min

    First Person: Telling the tragic story of mercury poisoning in Japan- Minamata(cop)4

    UN News Global perspective Human stories 30 October 2021 Health Masami Ogata is a survivor of Minamata Disease, a debilitating illness...
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    How To Tell If Mercury Toxicity Is The Cause Of Your Mysterious Symptoms
    alchemist21
    • Aug 31, 2021
    • 1 min

    How To Tell If Mercury Toxicity Is The Cause Of Your Mysterious Symptoms

    Written by Elizabeth Boham, MD "Mercury can affect nearly all your organs, especially the brain, heart, kidneys, and gut, and many...
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    Legal mining deforested over 120,000 hectares in Colombia within less than one decade
    alchemist21
    • Aug 23, 2021
    • 1 min

    Legal mining deforested over 120,000 hectares in Colombia within less than one decade

    By Joanna Kedzierska "Levels of deforestation in Colombia have significantly increased in recent years due to logging by the legal mining...
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    Congratulations Bahrain!
    alchemist21
    • Aug 20, 2021
    • 2 min

    Congratulations Bahrain!

    On Aug 19, 2021 the Government of Bahrain deposited its instrument of ratification becoming the 133rd Party to the Minamata Convention on...
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    Mercury: Get This Heavy-Metal Poison Out of Your Body
    alchemist21
    • Aug 16, 2021
    • 1 min

    Mercury: Get This Heavy-Metal Poison Out of Your Body

    IF YOU ARE HEAVY, it could be making you sick and tired and age prematurely. And I don’t mean heavy with fat … I mean heavy with heavy...
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    Mercury Observatory
    alchemist21
    • Aug 10, 2021
    • 1 min

    Mercury Observatory

    In partnership with Fiocruz, CINCIA, and other institutions, WWF-Brazil has created the Mercury Observatory, which assembles studies and...
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    Should gold mining be considered an impact investment?
    alchemist21
    • Jun 25, 2021
    • 1 min

    Should 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...
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    Leaching gold with cassava: An option to eliminate mercury use in artisanal gold mining.
    Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)
    • Jun 24, 2021
    • 2 min

    Leaching 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....
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    Trillion Trees: Amazon Bioeconomy Challenge
    alchemist21
    • Jun 12, 2021
    • 1 min

    Trillion Trees: Amazon Bioeconomy Challenge

    This Challenge calls for innovative bioeconomy projects in the Amazon Forest that protect and restore biodiversity and ecosystem...
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    How mercury sneaks into the most vulnerable communities in US and Canada
    alchemist21
    • May 21, 2021
    • 1 min

    How mercury sneaks into the most vulnerable communities in US and Canada

    The harmful chemical has a unique quality: it can build up in our river systems over time Methylmercury poisonings in aquatic ecosystems...
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    ECUADOR TAILINGS DISCHARGE POLLUTES THE CALERA RIVER WATERS - IN PERU THE CONSEQUENCES ARE SUFFERING
    alchemist21
    • Feb 10, 2021
    • 2 min

    ECUADOR 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...
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    Portovelo-Zaruma Artisanal Mining: Poverty Driven Destruction
    alchemist21
    • Feb 10, 2021
    • 1 min

    Portovelo-Zaruma Artisanal Mining: Poverty Driven Destruction

    An overview of the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) practices used in Portovelo, Ecuador. The short film shows how miners...
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    Portovelo-Zaruma Artisanal Miners March for Better Working Conditions
    alchemist21
    • Feb 9, 2021
    • 1 min

    Portovelo-Zaruma Artisanal Miners March for Better Working Conditions

    Alchemy Mining Group, Inc. (“AMGI”) an Innovation Provider to #MakeMercuryHistory in ASG miner's gold ore processing. "Profit proudly...
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    Mysterious chemical found in dead cat’s brain reopens debate over mercury poisoning disaster
    alchemist21
    • Feb 7, 2021
    • 1 min

    Mysterious chemical found in dead cat’s brain reopens debate over mercury poisoning disaster

    The city of Minamata, Japan, is dotted with monuments commemorating victims of an industrial mass poisoning decades ago. High in the...
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    Mercury (II) Binding Activity of Vegetable and Fruit Juices: Identifying Potential Detoxifying Juice
    alchemist21
    • Jan 15, 2021
    • 2 min

    Mercury (II) Binding Activity of Vegetable and Fruit Juices: Identifying Potential Detoxifying Juice

    Artisanal gold mining is known to cause high levels of mercury (Hg) contamination to human populations, due mainly to many miners burning...
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    Special Report: Sleeping Beauty - How suspect gold reached top brands
    alchemist21
    • Jan 15, 2021
    • 1 min

    Special Report: Sleeping Beauty - How suspect gold reached top brands

    LA RINCONADA, Peru (Reuters) - From the Andes mountains, thousands of artisanal gold-diggers for years sent fragments of metal to a Swiss...
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    Trading mercury
    alchemist21
    • Jan 15, 2021
    • 1 min

    Trading mercury

    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...
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    UK Super Rock Star Robbie Williams 'almost died' from mercury poisoning over seafood habit
    Bruce A. Cosgrove M.Sc., (Solution Chemistry)
    • Jan 6, 2021
    • 2 min

    UK Super Rock Star Robbie Williams 'almost died' from mercury poisoning over seafood habit

    | Yahoo Entertainment UK | December 17, 2020 | | By Katie Archer | Robbie Williams has shared a fishy tale about his brush with death...
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