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  • Miners in a pond mixing mercury with ore to separate out the gold.
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  • Miners in a pond mixing mercury with ore to separate out the gold.
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  • Rough hands pressing excess mercury from extracted gold.
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  • Miners in a pond mixing mercury with ore to separate out the gold.
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  • Miners in a pond mixing mercury with ore to separate out the gold.
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  • Miners in a pond mixing mercury with ore to separate out the gold.
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  • Miners use mercury to separate gold from rock.
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  • Miners traveled underground in Idrija, Slovenia for 500 years to mine mercury.  Now with little need for the metal, the mine closed leaving an environmental nightmare. A small crew works to fill in the tunnels to keep heavy metals run off from polluting groundwater. Men take showers after their shift and hang their clothes on hooks.
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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • A man fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Slurry pond filled with toxic brew of heavy metals from coal washing. Dams hold back thick sludge with heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury, and lead that routinely overflow into watersheds, contaminate drinking water, and drive toxic sludge into residents’ backyards.
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  • A 2.8 billion gallon sludge pond of toxic chemicals & heavy metals sits above a community in West Virginia. Coal slurry contains elevated levels of chlorides, sulfates, arsenic, lead, mercury, and selenium. Coal companies dispose of coal cleaning process creating a slurry in massive impoundments which are hundreds of feet deep and have failed or overflowed. Coal slurry impoundments represent a major threat to public health andaquatic organisms due to potential contamination of groundwater and streams.
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  • Men walk near a coal slurry pond where cattle died after drinking water. Heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury and lead contaminate water and is a threat to human health and livestock.
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  • Polluted water seeps from a coal refuse dump that when tested, reveals a toxic witches brew of arsenic, mercury, and other heavy metals and chemicals. The orange appearance is from high iron in the water which can cause diabetes, hemochromatosis, stomach problems, and nausea. It can also damage the liver, pancreas, and heart.
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