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How to Mitigate Mercury Pollution in Tanzania

Author(s) -

Peter Appel,

Leoncio Na-Oy

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

journal of environmental protection

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2152-2219

pISSN - 2152-2197

DOI - 10.4236/jep.2013.45a001

Subject(s) - borax , gold mining , tanzania , mercury (programming language) , gold extraction , pollution , mercury pollution , environmental science , environmental protection , natural resource economics , environmental planning , metallurgy , computer science , chemistry , economics , materials science , raw material , ecology , organic chemistry , cyanide , biology , programming language

Mercury pollution from small-scale gold mining poses a serious threat to the global and local environment. Recycling of mercury for small-scale miners has been introduced over decades in Tanzania with little success. The environmentally benign borax gold extraction method invented more than thirty years ago in the Philippines and presently used by more than thirty thousand Philippine miners has proved to work on the gold ores in Chunya and Singida gold districts of Tanzania. By using borax instead of mercury the miners reduce the risk of polluting the environment and spoil their health for generations. The most convincing argument for the miners to change to borax is that they can increase their gold recovery up to fifty percent without need for investing in new equipment and without much more work on processing.

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