“Mining enough gold for an average wedding ring creates about 20 tons of hazardous mining waste, which is often dumped in rivers or the sea.” “During the gold rush, an estimated 7,600 tons of mercury were deposited into the rivers of the central Sierra Nevada […]
“In gold mining, it is estimated that only 0.00001% of the ore is actually refined into gold. Chemicals used in processing contaminate at least 90 billion tons of waste ore per year globally, equvilent in weight to 9 times as much trash produced annu
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