Mercury Production and Use in Colonial Andean Silver Production: Emissions and Health Implications | Zendy

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Mercury Production and Use in Colonial Andean Silver Production: Emissions and Health Implications

Author(s) -

Nicholas A. Robins,

Nicole Hagan

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1104192

Subject(s) - mercury (programming language) , production (economics) , environmental science , natural resource economics , environmental health , environmental chemistry , environmental protection , chemistry , medicine , computer science , economics , macroeconomics , programming language

Colonial cinnabar mining and refining began in Huancavelica, Peru, in 1564. With a local source of mercury, the amalgamation process was adopted to refine silver in Potosí, Bolivia, in the early 1570s. As a result, large quantities of mercury were released into the environment.

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