{"id":5036,"date":"2019-09-02T10:57:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T07:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5036"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","slug":"journey-of-gold-mining-and-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/02\/journey-of-gold-mining-and-mercury\/","title":{"rendered":"Journey Of Gold: Mining And Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By UN Environment<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gold is one of the world\u2019s most valuable\nmetals, used in everything from electronics to dentistry. But do you know where\nyours comes from? 20% of gold comes from artisanal and small-scale miners, who\noften work illegally using toxic chemicals, such as mercury. The Minamata\nConvention is working to promote mercury-free mining that helps workers and the\nplanet. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/video\/journey-gold-mining-and-mercury\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment Gold is one of the world\u2019s most valuable metals, used in everything from electronics to dentistry. But do you know where yours comes from? 20% of gold&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}