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Alaska, concerned about gold miners’ health, to test them for mercury

Michael Allan McCrae | August 26, 2012 | 3:32 pm Precious Metals Gold 

Alaska health officials, concerned about amateur miners seeking riches in a modern-day mini gold rush, plan to test prospectors in the town of Nome for mercury exposure for fear that archaic mining techniques may be inadvertently harming their bodies.

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