PHOTOS: Oldest Known Mercury-Pollution Evidence Found

Monday, May 18, 2009 - 17:28 in Earth & Climate

Long before the industrial revolution, long before the conquistadors set foot in South America, ancient Americans were mining mercury, a new study says.

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