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Environment Impact of Mining in Indonesia

Posted 13 June 2013 3:15 GMT 1 · Written by Mong Palatino

Categories: East Asia, Indonesia, Economics & Business, Environment, Governance

An article published at mongabay.com exposes the destructive environment impact ^[1] of mining in remote Indonesian towns.Some scholars fear that “parts of Indonesia now have the highest levels of mercury contamination on earth.”