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The number of hazmat events found by google has dropped significantly over the last week. I did see two headlines mentioning chemical explosions that I was unable to find a confirming story for. Part of this change could be the economic slowdown, but I also suspect that the media are being distracted from hazmat events by Covid 19 concerns. Most of the hazmat stories are about shoppers wearing "hazmat suits" during their errands. I did see a report from a volunteer firefighter of a spike in calls from residences as people shelter in place.
- Ralph
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HOW ONE COUNTRY IS GRAPPLING WITH MERCURY EMISSIONS FROM ARTISANAL GOLD SHOPS
Tags: Peru, public, discovery, environmental, mercury
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HOW ONE COUNTRY IS GRAPPLING WITH MERCURY EMISSIONS FROM ARTISANAL GOLD SHOPS
https://cen.acs.org/environment/pollution/one-country-grappling-mercury-emissions/98/i10
Tags: Peru, public, discovery, environmental, mercury
Worldwide, artisanal and small-scale gold mining represents about 10% of the world‰??s gold supply, and some 100 million people depend on such mining for survival, according to the Fairtrade Foundation, which works to promote fairer trading conditions. With gold prices currently at a historical high, miners like those in the Peruvian Amazon, many of whom come from poor Andean communities, are attracted to the sector as a means of improving their lives.
What goes unseen are the toxic emissions from the rudimentary refining taking place within the many gold shops. Shop workers use mercury to separate the gold from other minerals and then burn off the mercury to yield pure gold. Depending on how open the shops are or how equipment is vented, ‰??when they heat the gold up, the pollution travels down the street,‰?? says Adam Kiefer, a chemistry professor at Mercer University.
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