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Our World: Indonesia: The Mercury Time Bomb

20/09/2013 GMT

Indonesia: The Mercury Time Bomb

BBC News - Our World, Indonesia: The Mercury Time Bomb

Linda Pressly visits Indonesia, where deadly mercury is being used to mine gold.

Linda Pressly visits Indonesia, where mercury is used in the gold mining process, and discovers workers and communities who are showing signs of poisoning.

Up to 20 per cent of the world's gold is produced by informal mining, with millions of people in the developing world relying on it for a living. But the quickest and easiest way to produce gold is by mixing finely ground rock with mercury and burning it off. Linda Pressly visits Indonesia, where mercury is used to produce gold, and discovers workers and communities who are already showing signs of poisoning.

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