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...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 of his body. And he had no fingers. It was probably the mercury that did it, the doctor said. Her baby was the first...
...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 between 100 and 200 tons of mercury have already seeped into the soil and water around the main mining site at Talawaan. Many tons more are dumped each month...
...Fecky lowers his voice. Standing a few yards away, watching eagerly as one of his workers squeezes a cloth holding the precious mercury and gold mixture, is Freddy Sigarlaki, the owner of the processing unit. Eyes glistening, Sigarlaki explains how he spent about $3,000?several decades' income for most of the farmers in the area?sinking a shaft on a nearby piece of land he owns. The soil yielded hardly any gold. Undeterred, Sigarlaki boasts he has now hired an excavator from Manado at $20 an hour to dig farther and deeper and faster. "No, no, there...
...from Tunis, installed them as the pashas of the West Bank and Gaza towns handed over to him under Oslo, and promised to negotiate away the Israeli occupation and in its place put a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. By last year, the peace process had delivered precious little of what Arafat had promised his people it would bring. And as he approached his moment of truth at Camp David, it was the Palestinian leader who had most reason to be alarmed by Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon. Because for Palestinian militants, both of the Islamist stripe...
Monterey OCM Gold 22.3% -14.7% Oppenheimer Gold Minerals A 17.2% -7.3% Scudder Gold S 16.2% -12.6% Vanguard Gold Precious Metals...