Squeezing Gold from a Stone: How to Reduce Toxic Health Risks and Pollution Caused by Mercury Use in the Small-Scale & Artisanal Gold Mining Sector

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dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.organizationEconomy Division
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-31T06:32:47Z
dc.date.available2020-01-31T06:32:47Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.descriptionLow-cost technologies available now have the potential to reduce dramatically mercury pollution in the small-scale and artisanal mining sector. By supporting miners with knowledge and resources to adopt these new technologies and with the right policies in place at the local, national and global level, we can stem a significant source of global mercury pollution.en
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dc.identifier.otherDTI/1238/GE
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/31286
dc.languageEnglish
dc.page.number20 p.
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.subjectgold
dc.subjecthealth
dc.subjectpollution
dc.subjectgold mine
dc.subjectmercury
dc.subjectwoman
dc.titleSqueezing Gold from a Stone: How to Reduce Toxic Health Risks and Pollution Caused by Mercury Use in the Small-Scale & Artisanal Gold Mining Sectoren
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