Global Burden of Disease of Mercury Used in Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mining
Background: Artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is the world's largest anthropogenic source of mercury emission. Gold miners are highly exposed to metallic mercury and suffer occupational mercury intoxication. The global disease burden as a result of this exposure is largely unknown becaus...
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Main Authors: | Nadine Steckling (Author), Myriam Tobollik (Author), Dietrich Plass (Author), Claudia Hornberg (Author), Bret Ericson (Author), Richard Fuller (Author), Stephan Bose-O'Reilly (Author) |
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Ubiquity Press,
2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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