Signs and symptoms of mercury-exposed gold miners
Objectives: Gold miners use mercury to extract gold from ore adding liquid mercury to the milled gold-containing ore. This results in a mercury-gold compound, called amalgam. Miners smelt this amalgam to obtain gold, vaporizing it and finally inhaling the toxic mercury fumes. The objective was to me...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine
2017-04-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health |
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| Online Access: | http://ijomeh.eu/Signs-and-symptoms-of-mercury-exposed-gold-miners,61808,0,2.html |