2000
DOI: 10.1016/s0048-9697(00)00548-9
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Human exposure to mercury due to small scale gold mining in northern Tanzania

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“…The mercury levels in the exposed areas were similar to the ones reported in this paper with a mean mercury urinary level of 39 µg/g creatinine for high exposed participants and maximum mercury level in urine of 172 µg/g creatinine [21].…”
Section: Results In Comparison With Other Publicationssupporting
confidence: 86%
“…The mercury levels in the exposed areas were similar to the ones reported in this paper with a mean mercury urinary level of 39 µg/g creatinine for high exposed participants and maximum mercury level in urine of 172 µg/g creatinine [21].…”
Section: Results In Comparison With Other Publicationssupporting
confidence: 86%
“…This detailed article summarized the results from 26 studies, showing that the exposure to inorganic Hg vapor is high, and that toxic effects have to be considered. Some relevant papers in different countries with ASGM showed that Hg levels in any analyzed biomarker were higher compared to control groups or reference values, and in some studies clinical symptoms or negative results for subclinical parameters were identified [7,8,13,14,26,28,29,31,32,[53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60]. These results are very similar to our results.…”
Section: Literaturesupporting
confidence: 90%
“…The range in this present study fell below the range of 0.02-183 µg l -1 reported in a study involving four towns around the Ankobra and Tano river basins in south-western Ghana of which the 217 subjects (12-18 years) were of school going age and might be involved in illegal mining 'galamsey' activities (Adimado & Baah, 2002). Van Straaten (2000) also reported Hg concentration of 172 mg l -1 in a 29-year old male involved in small-scale gold mining in Tanzania. The reason for the low Hg levels in the present study could be that the subjects were not into small-scale gold mining which involves amalgamation of the gold concentrate and later heating the amalgam to vapourise Hg.…”
Section: Urine Samplescontrasting
confidence: 68%