In a new study, scientists at CornellUniversity, the University of Toronto, and collaborators explain how tree cores can be used to accurately detect the presence of gold mining by chronicling the emissions of mercury. .
... from artisanal gold mining in the neotropics,” Jacqueline Gerson, a CornellUniversity biological and environmental engineering associate professor and study first author, said in a statement.
According to the WorldGoldCouncil, we’re currently mining for gold on every continent except Antarctica, with China being the largest producer in the world in 2023 ... "There has been some mining (West ...
Collected from a range of geological and coastal environments, the gold samples reveal varied shapes formed as the particles were carried downstream by rivers to the coast, according to the University of Otago researchers.