DAVAO CITY: For years, small-scale miners in the gold-rich village of Mt. Diwata, popularly known as Diwalwal, in Monkayo town in Compostela Valley relied on mercury in gold processing—a dangerous practice that could affect a person’s health and the destroy the environment.

Fortunately, all that will change after the village council and 200 miners recently signed an agreement with the non-profit environmental group Ban Toxics! to lessen and eventually eliminate the use of mercury in their mining practice.

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