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The Mercury Problem in Artisanal and Small‐Scale Gold Mining
Chemistry - A European Journal, 2018 Mercury‐dependent artisanal and small‐scale gold mining (ASGM) is the largest source of mercury pollution on Earth. In this practice, elemental mercury is used to extract gold from ore as an amalgam.
Louisa J Esdaile, Justin M Chalker
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Environmental Mercury and Its Toxic Effects [PDF]
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2014 Mercury exists naturally and as a man-made contaminant. The release of processed mercury can lead to a progressive increase in the amount of atmospheric mercury, which enters the atmospheric-soil-water distribution cycles where it can remain in ...
Kevin M. Rice +4 more
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Laying Waste to Mercury: Inexpensive Sorbents Made from Sulfur and Recycled Cooking Oils
Chemistry - A European Journal, 2017 Mercury pollution threatens the environment and human health across the globe. This neurotoxic substance is encountered in artisanal gold mining, coal combustion, oil and gas refining, waste incineration, chloralkali plant operation, metallurgy, and ...
Inês S Albuquerque +2 more
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Efficient Mercury Capture Using Functionalized Porous Organic Polymer
Advanced Materials, 2017 Briana Aguila, Qi Sun, Jason A Perman
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Metals, 2021 The drive for continuously improving the performance and increasing the efficiencies of marine transportation has resulted in the development of a new alloy, Mercalloy A362™. This alloy was designed to lighten Mercury Marine’s lower transmission gearcase
Joshua Stroh +4 more
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Toxic Mechanisms of Five Heavy Metals: Mercury, Lead, Chromium, Cadmium, and Arsenic
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 The industrial activities of the last century have caused massive increases in human exposure to heavy metals. Mercury, lead, chromium, cadmium, and arsenic have been the most common heavy metals that induced human poisonings.
M. Balali-Mood +4 more
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Amazon forests capture high levels of atmospheric mercury pollution from artisanal gold mining
Nature Communications, 2022 Mercury emissions from artisanal and small-scale gold mining throughout the Global South exceed coal combustion as the largest global source of mercury.
Jacqueline R. Gerson +22 more
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Current Pollution Reports, 2022 The concern of mercury pollution and the impact that it poses on the marine environment were studied heavily since the case of the poison from Minamata bay in the 1960s. The present study provides an insight into the cycle of mercury and methylmercury in
Maetha M. Al-Sulaiti +2 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 Surface geothermal expressions such as mud pools, fumaroles, mineral deposits, collapse pits, and hydrothermal eruption craters vary in scale and type over space and time.
Cristian Montanaro +7 more
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Global health effects of future atmospheric mercury emissions
Nature Communications, 2021 Mercury is a potent neurotoxin that poses health risks to the global population. Anthropogenic mercury emissions to the atmosphere are projected to decrease in the future due to enhanced policy efforts such as the Minamata Convention, a legally-binding ...
Yanxu Zhang +13 more
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