Guyanese/Venezuelan team looks to mercury-free mining methods

Guyanese Chemist Devindra Baldeo

In response to pressure for the complete removal of mercury from the recovery process in the global gold-mining sector, Devindra Baldeo and Jhonny Marquez have teamed up and set themselves the ambitious task of working with the local industry in the search for a mercury-free method of gold recovery.

Local miners, it would appear, are now persuaded that the recent ban on the export of mercury from North America and Europe signals the death knell of the use of the substance in the sector.