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Mercury and gold mining in Colombia: a failed state

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consequences that generate the high consumption of mercury in gold mining activities is an international country's gold mines have no mining title and only and environmental lawlessness, the failures of importation controls on the supply are the cause of the high consumption of mercury in Colombian evidenced the miners' partiality in favor of the use of mercury in the procurement of gold; the process is government has opted for a policy of persecution of the activity rather than the promotion of their

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Leonardo Güiza Suárez, Juan David Aristizábal (2013). Mercury and gold mining in Colombia: a failed state. Universitas Scientiarum, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.sc18-1.mgmc

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Suárez, L. G., & Aristizábal, J. D. (2013). Mercury and gold mining in Colombia: a failed state. Universitas Scientiarum, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.sc18-1.mgmc
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