Mercury Contamination in Riverine Sediments and Fish Associated with Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Madre de Dios, Peru. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2018 Martinez G +7 more
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Predictors of mitochondrial DNA copy number and damage in a mercury-exposed rural Peruvian population near artisanal and small-scale gold mining: An exploratory study. [PDF]
Environ Mol Mutagen, 2019 Berky AJ +8 more
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Mercury-carbon relationships in environmental media near artisanal gold mining sites in Guyana. [PDF]
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Public health impacts of gold mining in Ghana: A scoping review of environmental exposures and intersectoral resilience strategies. [PDF]
J Public Health AfrAsamoah PE, Owusu AO.
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Formalizing artisanal and small-scale gold mining: A grand challenge of the Minamata Convention [PDF]
One Earth, 2022 Abstract: Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is the world’s largest source of anthropogenic mercury emissions and releases. These have devastating consequences for miners' health and the environment. Most of the >20 million ASGM miners worldwide are not officially recognized, registered, regulated, or protected by state laws.
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Sustainability of the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Northeast Antioquia-Colombia [PDF]
Sustainability, 2021 The aim of this work is to explain the concepts of sustainability with respect to small artisanal gold mining. For this, a qualitative approach with a descriptive scope was used, for which the bibliographic review technique was conducted. In this sense, articles, theses, books and institutional documents, and any contribution related to the research ...
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Mercury mitigation and unintended consequences in artisanal and small-scale gold mining
Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2023 The increased research attention on estimating the global mercury use and emissions in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has improved awareness of the problems associated with ASGM. However, little attention has been paid to the specific effects of particular intervention strategies to mitigate global mercury use and emissions in accordance ...
Shoki Kosai, Kenichi Nakajima
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