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Peru’s illegal gold mining poisoning children, natives—report

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 09, 2013 | 7:53 pm Base Metals Precious Metals Europe Latin America Copper Gold 

Toxic levels of mercury coming from illegal gold miners in Peru's south eastern Amazon are being dumped in the jungle’s rivers, posing serious health risk to children, a new study by the Carnegie Amazon Mercury Project reveals. Native communities, says...

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