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 ...
SAN JOAQUIN, Mexico (AP) — A drill echoes through narrow tunnels deep within the mountain where miner Hugo Flores bores into rock in search of one of Earth’s most toxic elements. Buried in red stripes ...
Liberia secures Global Environment Facility (GEF) approval for landmark mercury-reduction project in the gold mining sector, ...
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 small-scale ...
Food crops grown near artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) operations in Nigeria are absorbing mercury directly from the air, according to new findings published in Biogeosciences, a journal ...
Gold is everywhere in modern life, from jewelry to electronics to smartphones. The global electronics industry alone uses 280 tonsannually. And that demand keeps growing. But most people know little ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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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