Environmental and human health risks of mercury released from artisanal gold mining in Tanzania
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1 Department of Environmental Science, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, 2 Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Health Sciences Addition, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, 3 Biological, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, 4 Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Water Research Institute...
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عنوان ژورنال: Afrika Focus
سال: 2008
ISSN: 2031-356X,0772-084X
DOI: 10.21825/af.v21i1.17743