Scientists investigate the side effects that stem from popular strategies adopted to mitigate mercury use and emissions in artisanal and small-scale gold mining Mercury is a unique element that has ...

Mining often happens in artisanal and small-scale mining operations that burn gold-mercury amalgams to extract gold particles. Credit: Simon Topp. For hundreds of years, the Amazon has been exploited ...

In the Philippines, as in many places across the globe, mercury has long been central to how small-scale gold miners earn their living. Used as an easy way to separate gold from other minerals they ...

Okay, so we are not truly dissolving the gold, we are actually forming an alloy between the gold and the mercury (called an amalgam). This process is not only cool to look at, but it also is really ...