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Mercury in the ecosystem : its dispersion and pollution today
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ISBN: 0878495290 9780878495290 Year: 1986 Publisher: Aedermannsdorf : Trans Tech publications,

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Enquête sur les sources de pollution par le mercure dans le bassin de l'Ourthe jusqu'à Tilff
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Year: 1974 Publisher: Liège : Université de Liège. Faculté de médecine (ULg). Département de clinique et pathologie médicales,

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Minamata disease: methylmercury poisoning in Minamata and Niigata, Japan
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ISBN: 0444998160 Year: 1977 Publisher: Tokyo


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Mercury in the environment : an epidemiological and toxicological appraisal
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ISBN: 087819004X Year: 1974 Publisher: Cleveland (Ohio) : CRC press,


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Methylmercury
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ISBN: 9241571012 Year: 1990

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Dietary and environmental lead : human health effects
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ISBN: 0444415971 0444415998 0444800506 0444806091 044480109X 0444801103 9780444806093 9780444415974 Year: 1985 Volume: v. 1A-B Publisher: Amsterdam: Elsevier,


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Mercury, Mining, and Empire
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ISBN: 0253356512 9786613235916 0253005388 1283235919 9780253005380 9780253356512 9781283235914 6613235911 Year: 2011 Publisher: Bloomington, IN Indiana University Press

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On the basis of an examination of the colonial mercury and silver production processes and related labor systems, Mercury, Mining, and Empire explores the effects of mercury pollution in colonial Huancavelica, Peru, and Potosí, in present-day Bolivia. The book presents a multifaceted and interwoven tale of what colonial exploitation of indigenous peoples and resources left in its wake. It is a socio-ecological history that explores the toxic interrelationships between mercury and silver production, urban environments, and the people who lived and worked in them. Nicholas A. Robins tells the

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Environmental degradation --Bolivia --Potosi ́ (Dept.). --- Environmental degradation --Peru --Huancavelica. --- Indians, Treatment of --Bolivia --Potosi ́ (Dept.) --History. --- Indians, Treatment of --Peru --Huancavelica --History. --- Mercury mines and mining --Environmental aspects --Peru --Huancavelica. --- Mercury mines and mining --Health aspects --Peru --Huancavelica. --- Mercury mines and mining --Peru --Huancavelica --History. --- Silver mines and mining --Bolivia --Potosi ́ (Dept.) --History. --- Silver mines and mining --Environmental aspects --Bolivia --Potosi ́ (Dept.). --- Silver mines and mining --Health aspects --Bolivia --Potosi ́ (Dept.). --- Silver mines and mining --- Environmental degradation --- Mercury mines and mining --- Indians, Treatment of --- Metals, Heavy --- Environmental Pollution --- Transition Elements --- American Native Continental Ancestry Group --- Poisoning --- Extraction and Processing Industry --- History, Modern 1601 --- -Continental Population Groups --- Public Health --- Elements --- Metals --- Industry --- History --- Substance-Related Disorders --- Inorganic Chemicals --- Population Groups --- Diseases --- Environment and Public Health --- Technology, Industry, and Agriculture --- Humanities --- Chemicals and Drugs --- Persons --- Technology, Industry, Agriculture --- Health Care --- Named Groups --- Indians, South American --- Mining --- Silver --- Mercury --- History, 17th Century --- Mercury Poisoning --- Environmental Exposure --- Business & Economics --- Industries --- Health aspects --- Environmental aspects --- History. --- Degradation, Environmental --- Destruction, Environmental --- Deterioration, Environmental --- Environmental destruction --- Environmental deterioration --- Mercury industry and trade --- Mines and mineral resources --- Natural disasters --- Environmental quality --- Indians --- Government relations --- E-books

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