Mercury contamination from artisanal gold mining in Antioquia, Colombia: The world's highest per capita mercury pollution

Science of The Total Environment - Tập 410-411 - Trang 154-160 - 2011
Paul Cordy1, Marcello M. Veiga, Ibrahim Salih, Sari Al-Saadi, Stephanie Console, Oseas García, Luis Alberto Mesa, Patricio Colón Velásquez-López, Monika Roeser
1N.B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada

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