Comments on: Rifts surfacing over no-mercury mining drive

By: eloise

eloise — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:29:22 +0000

joe don,t let them get to you
i cant give any comment because
i don,t know any thing about that.

By: Joe Coxall

Joe Coxall — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:12:41 +0000

Tony, thanks for your deep interest in my well being. Deeply appreciated.

May I inform you that they use mercury which they call Thymerol,in everyone of your vaccines, as a preservative.

So the next time you takes your kids for a vaccine, watch out for what you wish for me.

Peace until next time my friend.

Joe.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:47:34 +0000

Joe, I’m an electronics engineer and I’d like to personally thank you, and all the other exploited, people like you who believe what their bosses tell them about the safety of mercury – instead of believing the doctors and scientists who call tell you exactly how dangerous it is. The electronics industry needs gold to make ICs and circuit boards. Without people like you willing to destroy your country, damage your health (just wait until you’re 60 – mercury stays in your body), and earn a pittance of a wage so that we foreigners can get rich from your hard work, we might have to actually work to earn a living. So, thank you again: your loss is my gain.

If the mercury hasn’t rotted your brain too seriously, you might gather I’m being facetious. People DO care about you. Yes, it would be NICE for the rest of us if you didn’t indiscriminately cut down your forests, but it is you Guyanese who benefit most. Your children will not be crawling in the streets begging for food because there is no wood left to sell or no aluminium to mine; and you will be able to breathe the air and drink the water because it’s not full of chemicals. There are lots of modern methods of exploiting your resources WITHOUT making a huge mess, if you would just hush and listen to people who have been there and made the mistakes before you. Don’t imagine you’re so damn clever just because you’re still – against all the odds – actually alive.

By: Joe Coxall

Joe Coxall — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:49:09 +0000

I am fat listless and out of shape here in the USA, not because of mercury poisioning but because of too much big macs and french fries, so also are millions of other people here in the USA, but we do not hear about a call to ban these products, as a matter of fact they are proudly exporting these death factories to the rest of the world.

What I really need is a good six months back in the gold mining fields, then girls watch out Mr. muscle and health is back in town. LOL

Joe.

By: Joe Coxall

Joe Coxall — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:39:49 +0000

Guyana miners need no training in the use of mercury, the use of mercury in the mining industry is negligable, and we need to tell these WWF shysters to buzz off and leave us alone, they are not concerned about health or environmental impact in our region, all they want to do is prevent us from ever touching our land resources for any reason.

I am living proof that there is no harm in useing mercury for mining purposes, I sucked mercury out of a handkerchief filled with gold, that was and probably still is, a regular practice. I stood over the fire and watched the gold burn from silver to orange gold color. Here I am 30 years later, blogging on SN. Do my blogs seem incoherent or unintelligable. I went back home the other day and met a few miners that were in the industry years before me, they looked healthy and strong and were still able to outdrink me.

Why are the industralised countries still producing mercury if it is such a hazard that Guyana cannot be allowed to use 1% of 1% of the total amount of world production for gold mining purposes.

Again I am saying,let them go ahead with the ban, we need to say go ahead, but we are not complying with your unreasonable and unfounded findings, and we will get our supplies from China.

Joe.