UNECA Centres: A way to reduce mercury emissions from artisanal gold mining and provide badly needed training

Industry and Environment

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 49-51

  Veiga, Marcello M ^a,c   Beinhoff, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION   (Austria)

^c UNIDO ^*  (Canada)

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