Open AccessEnvironmental Health and Safety Hazards of Indigenous Small-Scale Gold Mining Using Cyanidation in the Philippines
Author(s) -
Ana Marie R. Leung,
Jinky Leilanie DP. Lu
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
environmental health insights
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 20
ISSN - 1178-6302
DOI - 10.4137/ehi.s38459
Subject(s) - gold mining , gold cyanidation , cyanide , environmental health , scale (ratio) , occupational safety and health , gold extraction , gold standard (test) , hazard , physical hazard , medicine , toxicology , geography , metallurgy , chemistry , pathology , cartography , biology , materials science , organic chemistry
This cross-sectional study aimed at the environmental health hazards at work and cyanide exposure of small-scale gold miners engaged in gold extraction from ores in a mining area in the Philippines.
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