Ghana’s mining boom is fuelling a public health crisis.
New research finds that mercury and arsenic from informal gold mining have reached “hazardous” levels, raising serious health and environmental concerns.
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A boom in artisanal gold mining in Ghana has driven mercury contamination to dangerous levels in host communities, with soil readings in some areas reaching 134 times amounts deemed to be safe, a government-backed study has found.
