elevated mercury concentrations in humans of madre de dios, peru马德雷德迪奥斯高汞含量在人类,秘鲁.pdfVIP

Elevated Mercury Concentrations in Humans of Madre de Dios, Peru Katy Ashe* Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America Abstract The enormous increase in practically unregulated mining in Madre de Dios Peru is leading to massive release of liquid elemental mercury to the environment. Rapidly increasing global prices for gold are causing a massive upsurge in artisanal mining in the Peruvian Amazon, considered to be one of the most biodiverse places on the planet