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A trial of extracting gold from stream sediment and High Au/Ag ore ...

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Man-made<br />

pollution<br />

• <strong>gold</strong>-mercury amalgamation<br />

Even in m<strong>ore</strong> recent times, mercury<br />

has been employed to extract <strong>gold</strong> in<br />

the small-scale mining. (e.g.<br />

Philippine, Brazil). Procedure <strong>from</strong><br />

creating amalgams with mercury<br />

through heating to drive <strong>of</strong>f mercury,<br />

results in a large number <strong>of</strong><br />

POISONINGs that attack to local<br />

people.<br />

View <strong>of</strong> high-grade Hg <strong>sediment</strong>s at the river (Murao, 2003).

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