Mercury (Hg) is a chemical of health concern worldwide that is now being acted upon
through the Minamata Convention. Operationalizing the Convention and tracking its …

Abstract Minamata disease (M. d.) is methylmercury (MeHg) poisoning that occurred in
humans who ingested fish and shellfish contaminated by MeHg discharged in waste water …

The major physical forms of mercury to which humans are exposed are mercury vapor, Hg0,
and methylmercury compounds, CH3HgX. Mercury vapor emitted from both natural and …

Amalgamation has been used for more than 4500 years in mining processes. Mercury has
been extensively used in South America by Spanish colonizers for precious metal recovery …

Governments, international agencies, NGOs, and academics focus their projects' objectives
on monitoring mercury pollution in Artisanal Gold Mining (AGM). Rarely do these monitoring …

Mercury (Hg) is known as one of the major contaminants in the Amazon. The Tapajós River
basin, in the Brazilian Amazon, has diverse anthropogenic activities which increase Hg …

A ruling by the European Union heralds the demise of those useful clinical instruments, the
mercury thermometer and the mercury sphygmomanometer. The new laws have been …

This paper examines the environmental impacts of small‐scale gold mining in Ghana, and
prescribes a series of recommendations for improving environmental performance in the …

This paper presents a review about mercury contamination and human exposure in the
Tapajós River basin (Brazil), one of the major tributaries of the Amazon impacted by …

In widespread informal gold mining in the Amazon Basin, mercury is used to capture the
gold particles as amalgam. Releases of mercury to the environment have resulted in the …