Assessing occupational mercury exposures and behaviours of artisanal and small-scale gold miners in Burkina Faso using passive mercury vapour badges

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• 作者：Paleah Black^a ; ^b ; ^{paleah@alumni.uottawa.ca} ; Myrianne Richard^b ; Ricardo Rossin^b ; Kevin Telmer^a ; ^b ; ^c
• 关键词：ASGM ; artisanal and small-scale gold mining ; GM ; geometric mean ; Hg ; mercury ; ICP-MS ; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry ; IDLH ; immediately dangerous to life and health ; PEL ; permissible exposure level ; REL ; recommended exposure limit ; TWA ; time weighted average ; 8-h TWA ; 8&#xA0 ; h time weighted average
• 刊名：Environmental Research
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：152
• 期：Complete
• 页码：462-469
• 全文大小：923 K
• 卷排序：152

文摘

Measures occupational exposure to mercury vapour in artisanal and small-scale gold mining. Uses passive mercury vapour monitors, an economic alternative to biomonitoring. Extremely high levels of mercury exposure detected that exceed guideline values. Area air sampling with LUMEX supports the exposure levels measured by the passive samplers. Pertinent as a possible monitoring approach for Minamata Convention compliance.