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🇬🇭 Gold Is Poisoning Ghana 🌏 One year since the start of a joint project by Pure Earth and the Ghana Environmental Protection Agency aimed at measuring mercury, lead and arsenic levels in artisanal gold mining areas, a report has been published on the current results of these measurements. ‼️ In some regions, there are huge excesses of mercury in the soil and in the air, as well as arsenic poisoning in fish and cereals. ❓ This year Ghanahas firmly embarked on the path of regulating artisanal gold mining. — Artisanal methods of gold mining are based on dangerous and anachronistic technologies. Toxic mercury is used to separate gold from other materials, while lead and arsenic are released as by-products that irresponsible miners leave at the mining site or dump into rivers. Devils Below