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Assessment of mercury bioavailability in soils and potential uptake by food crops grown around selected artisanal and small-scale gold mining areas of Eastern Uganda
(Makerere University, 2024)The unregulated use of elemental mercury (Hg) in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) to extract gold from its ore results in metal pollution of various environmental systems. ASGM employs the mercury amalgamation ...