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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...
Autores principales: | Steckling, Nadine, Bose-O’Reilly, Stephan, Pinheiro, Paulo, Plass, Dietrich, Shoko, Dennis, Drasch, Gustav, Bernaudat, Ludovic, Siebert, Uwe, Hornberg, Claudia |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2014
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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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