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Mercury Pollution from Artisanal Gold Mining in Block B, El Callao, Bolivar State, Venezuela

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Dept. Mining Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    Marcello M. Veiga (Consultants to UNIDO) & Aaron J. Gunson (Consultants to UNIDO)

  2. National Experimental University of Guayana, Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela

    Dario Bermudez (Consultants to UNIDO)

  3. Dept. of Preventive Medicine — Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Heloisa Pacheco-Ferreira (Consultants to UNIDO)

  4. CETEM — Center of Mineral Technology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Luiz Roberto Martins Pedroso (Consultants to UNIDO)

  5. Hecla Mine, Venezuela

    Gilberto Berrios

  6. CVG — Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana, Venezuela

    Ligia Vos (VP Environment)

  7. UNIDO — United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Vienna, Austria

    Pablo Huidobro & Monika Roeser

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  1. CNR-Institute for Atmospheric Pollution, Division of Rende, 87036, Rende, Italy

    Nicola Pirrone

  2. Office of Science Coordination and Policy, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., 20640, USA

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Veiga, M.M. et al. (2005). Mercury Pollution from Artisanal Gold Mining in Block B, El Callao, Bolivar State, Venezuela. In: Pirrone, N., Mahaffey, K.R. (eds) Dynamics of Mercury Pollution on Regional and Global Scales:. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-24494-8_18

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