The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has urged small-scale miners to stop applying methods that involve the use of mercury, and adopt modern techniques, to protect human lives and preserve the environment.
The Environmental Protection Agency has urged small-scale miners to stop applying methods that involve the use of mercury, and adopt modern techniques, to protect human lives and preserve the environment.
Coming home to Ghana, it is well known that ASGM activities are known for the use of mercury for the amalgamation of gold. Making the call to stop the use of mercury, the EPA emphasised that the chemical in ASGM causes in the affected communities permanent brain damage, seizures, vision and hearing impairments, still birth, deformity among babies, delayed childhood development and kidney malfunctioning.
In fact, in some jurisdictions such as Zimbabwe mercury use is illegal and in others it is restricted in certain ways.There was a problem processing your submission. Please try again later. It takes its steam from a mercury poisoning incident in Japan in 1956, in which more than 2,000 people died; the incident later became known as the Minamata Disease.
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