Economic Impacts on Human Health Resulting from the Use of Mercury in the Illegal Gold Mining in the Brazilian Amazon: A Methodological Assessment
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mercury; methylmercury; artisanal small-scale gold mining; Amazon; human health; economic valuation;All these keywords.
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