A close‐knit tribal region in the northern Philippines converts from whole ore amalgamation to Hg‐free gold mining
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The Ga’ang community used a whole ore amalgamation process, which involved minimally concentrating the coarse gold but losing a great deal of fine gold to the wash water. The washed ore was then amalgamated with large quantities of Hg.
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