Peru’s illegal gold mining prompts public health emergency

Al Jazeera English 2016-06-30

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A study in the US has found that more than 500 kilometres of Peru's Amazon River is contaminated with mercury.
For decades, illegal gold miners have been pouring thousands of tons of mercury into rivers.
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