Environment & Ecology · Mercury Pollution and Mining
The 'Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM)' sector has drawn global environmental concern primarily because:
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- 1It is the leading cause of arsenic contamination in groundwater worldwide.
- 2It is a major direct source of chlorofluorocarbon emissions affecting stratospheric ozone.
- 3It consumes exceptionally high volumes of freshwater in comparison with large-scale mechanised mining.
- 4It is among the largest anthropogenic sources of mercury emissions and releases to the environment.✓
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It is among the largest anthropogenic sources of mercury emissions and releases to the environment.
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