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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

elemental mercury itself its the least toxic, its only the ones that are organo-mercury compounds.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/mercury-has-long-poisoned-gold-miners-new-strategy-helping-change

This toxic chemical has been used in small-scale gold mining for more than 3,000 years and can cause irreversible brain damage.