Expert promotes safer gold mining
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 - 07:10
in Mathematics & Economics
Mention the Mad Hatter and the image that comes to mind is the character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland—a little batty but quite harmless. But for UBC mining engineering professor Marcello Veiga, the words call up a darker image: mercury poisoning, particularly as it occurs among small-scale miners in developing countries.