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Mercury contamination in fanned fish setup on former garimpo mining areas in the Northern Mato Grosso State, Amazonian region, Brazil
(Elsevier B.V., 2005-09-15)
The garimpo gold mining activity has released about 2.500 tons of mercury in the Brazilian Amazonian environment in the 1980-1995 period. The northern region of Mato Grosso State, an important gold mining and trading area ...
Mercury contamination in fanned fish setup on former garimpo mining areas in the Northern Mato Grosso State, Amazonian region, Brazil
(Elsevier B.V., 2005-09-15)
The garimpo gold mining activity has released about 2.500 tons of mercury in the Brazilian Amazonian environment in the 1980-1995 period. The northern region of Mato Grosso State, an important gold mining and trading area ...
Gold in Peru: Present status and future challenge
(The Korean Society of Economic and Environmental GeologyKR, 2015)
Total reported gold resources in Peru is about 192 Moz. Gold production in Peru was 4.9 Moz in 2013, which was ranked first in Latin America and sixth in the world. Historic cumulative gold production in Peru is 118 Moz, ...
Environmental study of gold mining tailings in the Ponce Enriquez mining area (Ecuador)
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Sede Medellín). Facultad de Minas., 2016-01-01)
As a result of the artisanal mining activities in Ecuador (specially in Ponce Enriquez mining area, province of Azuay), great quantities of mining wastes have been disposed, usually without adequate management standards. ...
Artisanal mining and the use of plant diversity
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Medellín - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, 2017-05-01)
This essay presents the variety of vegetation which is utilized in traditional mining activities in the municipalities of Cértegui (Subdistricts of: Cértegui cabecera, La Toma y Recta Larga) and the Panamerican Union ...
Characterization and treatment of artisanal gold mine tailings
(2008)
The solid waste generated by artisanal gold mining, with high mercury and gold contents, can be found in several areas in the South America. The present study focused on the tailings of an artisanal gold mine area located ...
Unstable Malaria Transmission in the Southern Peruvian Amazon and Its Association with Gold Mining, Madre de Dios, 2001-2012
(American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2017)
The reemergence of malaria in the last decade in Madre de Dios, southern Peruvian Amazon basin, was accompanied by ecological, political, and socioeconomic changes related to the proliferation of illegal gold mining. We ...