Word: ores
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...After that, as Femmy later recounted to a friend, she endured the three months with gnawing fear of what she had done to her baby by working all day in the ore processing factory. Almost every hour of every day had meant touching or breathing mercury: it is used to bind with, then separate the tiny bits of gold from the stone; then it has to be burned off to isolate the precious metal. When the baby finally arrived, the doctor waited until an hour after the birth before telling Femmy what had happened. Her son's intestines were outside...
...processing units or mines, didn't want to know about the dangers. They were poor, and the gold brought money and jobs. So, day and night, in the hills above Manado, capital of Indonesia's North Sulawesi province, you can hear the noise from the processing units, the ore and water and stones and mercury sloshing and banging in steel barrels, the roar of the diesel motors turning the long lines of drums...
...mine the area, to go about its business. Even critics of the mining company say its modern equipment would have produced a fraction of the mercury currently being dumped. Instead, the region is confronting a disaster of biblical proportions as illegal miners burrow into the muddy earth. The ore they bring up from the hundreds of tunnels snaking as far as 70 m under the surface contains minute amounts of gold, a few grams a ton. Their primitive processing techniques require large quantities of mercury to extract the precious metal. Los Angeles-based environmental consultancy Dames and Moore estimates that...
...this sunny morning he wanders over to watch the proceedings, his six-month-old daughter Indah?with gold hoop earrings, huge eyes and a mass of black curls?perched on his left shoulder. His 12-year-old son Dedy comes with him, scrambling over the stacked bags of ore and splashing with yips of delight through the lake of muddy water that surrounds the unit, all of it contaminated with mercury...
...patient. There are far more differences than similarities between the Oregon experience and that of the Netherlands. Most of what occurs in the Netherlands under its euthanasia law would not be tolerated under the Oregon law. To borrow your phrase, Oregon is no "Hemlockland." ELI D. STUTSMAN, ATTORNEY Portland, Ore...