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Investigation of Gold Recovery and Mercury Losses in Whole Ore Amalgamation: Artisanal Gold Mining in Nambija, Ecuador

Richard González-Vásquez,
María Jesús García-Martínez and
David Bolonio

Minerals2023, 13(11), 1396;https://doi.org/10.3390/min13111396

31 October 2023

Mercury is a highly toxic pollutant that can negatively affect human health and the environment; informal mining is one of the main sources of anthropogenic mercury release due to the separation or concentration by amalgamation that is still used to...

(This article belongs to the Section Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy)

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Artisanal and Small Gold Mining and Petroleum Production as Potential Sources of Heavy Metal Contamination in Ecuador: A Call to Action

José Luis Rivera-Parra,
Bernardo Beate,
Ximena Diaz and
María Belén Ochoa

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health2021, 18(6), 2794;https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18062794

10 March 2021

Mining and petroleum production are the source of many elements and base materials fundamental for our modern way of life. The flip side of these keystone industries is the environmental degradation they can cause if not properly managed. Metallic mi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) Related Environmental and Health Problems)

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