KEDOUGOU – 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 sediment ...

Across African mining regions, scientists are using isotope analysis to trace how mercury spreads through the environment ...

Gold-mining equipment operates in water near a river bank with trees in the background. Illegal gold mining along the Madre de Dios River near Puerto Maldonado in the Amazon River basin of Peru.

Despite the government of Zimbabwe’s on-paper commitment to reduce and regulate the use of mercury in mining, the toxic metal remains pervasive and unfettered in the country’s artisanal gold mining ...

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