Mercury fuels gold mining in Senegal. And it’s poisoning the people who use it – The Times of India
Women process gold at a mining site in the Kedougou region of Senegal (Image: AP) The quickest way to separate gold from rock, Sadio Camara says, is with a drop of mercury. She empties a dime-sized packet of the silvery liquid into a plastic bucket of muddy sediment outside her …