Even as information disseminated by high-profile international agencies, including the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), points to an enhanced focus on eradicating the use of mercury in the global gold recovery industry, local gold miners are reportedly still prepared to defy the widely proven serious health threat linked to the use of the lethal chemical element in pursuit of significantly increasing their earnings from the industry.
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