Onias Landveld with the staff. Still from Jongsma en O’Neill’s documentary, courtesy of the interviewees. This article originally appeared on VICE Netherlands. In January 2022, the Mauritiushuis museum in The Hague had a unique wooden staff on show. Topped by a carved figure of a woman with a small smiling mouth, the staff was likely […]
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Gold Mining Is Poisoning the Planet With Mercury
Jeovane de Jesus Aguiar was knee-deep in mud in the 100-yard gash he had cut into the Amazon rainforest, filtering brown water out of a pan, when he found the small, shiny flake he was looking for: a mixture of gold and mercury. Mr. Aguiar had drizzled liquid mercury into the ground in his makeshift […]
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