Widespread elevated concentrations of gaseous elemental mercury in Guanajuato, Mexico, centuries after historical silver refining by mercury amalgamation.
Calomel
Hispanic America
Historical silver mining
Mercury pollution
Minamata convention
Patio process
Journal
The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
15 Oct 2022
15 Oct 2022
Historique:
received:
21
04
2022
revised:
26
06
2022
accepted:
27
06
2022
pubmed:
3
7
2022
medline:
24
8
2022
entrez:
2
7
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Silver (Ag) production in Hispanic America between the 16th and 19th centuries is thought to be one of the largest sources of anthropogenic mercury (Hg) emissions in history. Recent reviews of the chemistry behind the patio process, which used Hg amalgamation to extract Ag from ore, reveal that a large amount of the Hg may not have been immediately released to the atmosphere; instead, it may have been captured in the form of calomel (Hg
Identifiants
pubmed: 35779723
pii: S0048-9697(22)04190-0
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157093
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Air Pollutants
0
Silver
3M4G523W1G
Mercury
FXS1BY2PGL
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
157093Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.