More than a century after the Mountain West’s silver and gold rushes, mercury used to process those metals is still moving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hugo Flores analyses a rock recently extracted from the mine in San Joaquin, Mexico (Associated Press/Fernando Llano) A drill ...

Long assumed by some to have been diluted and washed away over time, mercury contamination from 19th-century gold mining is ...

SAN JOAQUIN, Mexico (AP) — A drill echoes through narrow tunnels deep within the mountain where miner Hugo Flores bores into rock in search of one of Earth’s most toxic elements. Buried in red stripes ...

Millions of people in Africa, South America, and Asia are facing serious long-term health risks from consuming local products. Mercury pollution from gold mining is contaminating food crops. It was ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A global mercury conference in Geneva faced sharp criticism Friday from environmental and Indigenous groups for failing to take stronger steps against mercury use in ...

In a recent study published in the journal Biogeosciences, scientists have confirmed that mercury pollution from artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is contaminating food crops not through ...

A small, leafy, green peanut plant grows out of a patch of dirt. When David McLagan’s team sampled mercury isotopes in cassava, maize, and peanut crops (like the one shown here) grown downwind of a ...

In a recent study published today in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) journal Biogeosciences, scientists have confirmed that mercury pollution from artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is ...