children with implications for women
who may be exposed during pregnancy.
Abundant quantities of mercury used in watermills and subsequent manual washing, River Nile State, 2022.
Gold production from
ASGM (t/y)
Official mercury imports figure (t /y)
Estimated mercury consumption based on gold production (t/y)
2014
63.3
10.005
633
2015
67.8
68.6
678
2016
78.2
62.1
782
2017
91.7
31.1
917
2018
77.7
45.5
777
2019
38.4
19.7
384
2020
20.9
18
209
Total
438.4
255.005
4384