Informal gold miners in Kenya at risk of mercury poisoning
05 June 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=Y55OPHSEdWE
For tens of thousands of people in Western Kenya, gold mining is a way of making a living.
On informal mines across the region, women use mercury to bring out the gold. But a recent study conducted by a network of international charities has found that the chemical could be slowly killing them - and affecting the wider community.
CGTN's Oliver Jarvis visited a number of mines to investigate the damage that mercury is doing to the lives of those who come into contact with it.