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Elevated Mercury Concentrations in Humans of Madre de Dios, Peru

The enormous increase in practically unregulated mining in Madre de Dios Peru is leading to massive release of liquid elemental mercury to the environment. Rapidly increasing global prices for gold are causing a massive upsurge in artisanal mining in the Peruvian Amazon, considered to be one of the...

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Autor principal: Ashe, Katy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3306380/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22438911
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033305