The burden of chronic mercury intoxication in artisanal small-scale gold mining in Zimbabwe: data availability and preliminary estimates

BACKGROUND: Artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is a poverty-driven activity practiced in over 70 countries worldwide. Zimbabwe is amongst the top ten countries using large quantities of mercury to extract gold from ore. This analysis was performed to check data availability and derive a prelim...

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Autores principales: Steckling, Nadine, Bose-O’Reilly, Stephan, Pinheiro, Paulo, Plass, Dietrich, Shoko, Dennis, Drasch, Gustav, Bernaudat, Ludovic, Siebert, Uwe, Hornberg, Claudia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4290131/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25495641
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-13-111

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4290131/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25495641
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-13-111

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