Wednesday, August 12, 2009
The Long Legacy Of Peru's "Mine Of Death"
From Earth Magazine:
The Inca knew there was something sinister about the cinnabar they hauled out of the ground at Huancavelica in Peru hundreds of years ago. They called the mine the Mine of Death. Now, a new study has exposed a 3,500-year history of mercury pollution from the cinnabar mines, a much longer legacy than researchers had previously realized.
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