Small-scale miners adopt less toxic methods

Environmental group Ban Toxics (BT) has enabled small-scale miners in a town in Kalinga to adopt a less toxic method of extracting gold from the ore without having to use mercury, a toxic chemical that is harmful both to humans and the environment.

BT said that following a three-year intervention program, it helped 95 percent of small-scale gold miners in the town of Ga’ang, Kalinga Province to use mercury-free methods.