Term Papers on M & Ms - Miners And Mercury

Term Paper Title	M & Ms - Miners And Mercury
# of Words	464
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	1.86

M & Ms - Miners and Mercury

Most miners of the Amazon lead a very polluted
way of life. They pollute the environment they live in
and they pollute themselves. The, "garimpeiros" as
the miners are called in Brazil are independent
farmers of the gold that flows beneath the rivers of
the Amazon rain-forest. Their daily routine of early
mornings, long hard days, and late nights drinking
and taking cocaine contribute to their way of life.
Their only goal in life is to drill for the gold dust
which seems to collect at the bottoms of waterfalls
then use the profits for illegal self indulgences like
cocaine. To extract this gold dust they must
combine mercury with the dust, and because of the
mercury’s chemical make-up it is able to extract the
gold from the useless rock and debris. The mercury,
however, isn’t the cleanest element for the
environment. Many garimpeiros carelessly use the
mercury then dump it into the rivers polluting the
water and the food. Also, the dust from the mercury
gets inhaled and eating by the miners, contributing
to their polluted way of life. All day dragas, which
are boats used for mining the bottom of rivers, are
pulled to locations where gold is thought to be
found, moving and polluting. Then there is the
common drug use among these farmers. The author
even quotes a man named Lincoln, an owner of a
draga, saying, "[n]ot that I object to cocaine. It’s no
worse than anything else, as far as I know, ...

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