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NYC_SKP

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1. Hydro mining is bad enough, then they use mercury to draw the gold out....

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Sat Jul 14, 2012, 12:30 AM

Jul 2012

...and, because it's illegal, they don't take any measures whatsoever to be neat about any of it.

Damn. I studied the Yanomami in anthropology class decades ago.

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Hydro mining is bad enough, then they use mercury to draw the gold out.... NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #1