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https://theconversation.com/gold-rush-mercury-legacy-small-scale-mining-for-gold-has-produced-long-lasting-toxic-pollution-from-1860s-california-to-modern-peru-133324
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Gold rush, mercury legacy: Small-scale mining for gold has produced long-lasting toxic pollution, from 1860s California to modern Peru
5/28/20 at 12:15pm
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The Conversation Africa
Authors
Jacqueline Gerson
Ph.D. Candidate in Ecology
Duke University
Austin Wadle
Ph.D. Student in Civil
Environmental Engineering
Jasmine Parham
Ph.D. Student in Biology
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Small-scale gold mining operations in developing countries are major sources of toxic mercury pollution, using techniques that haven't changed much since the California Gold Rush 150 years ago.
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