{"id":173132,"date":"2025-09-03T12:16:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=173132"},"modified":"2025-09-03T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:16:51","slug":"mexicos-rising-mercury-trade-fuels-toxic-gold-mining-in-latin-america-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=173132","title":{"rendered":"Mexico\u2019s rising mercury trade fuels toxic gold mining in Latin America: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY \u2014 In 2017, as part of an international treaty, Mexico started phasing down mercury production and eliminating its use in gold mining, citing major environmental and public health hazards. The effort appeared to work: Between 2017 and 2018, the government reported that national mercury production had dropped from 442 metric tons to just [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2025\/07\/mexicos-rising-mercury-trade-fuels-toxic-gold-mining-in-latin-america-report\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY \u2014 In 2017, as part of an international treaty, Mexico started phasing down<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173132-mexicos-rising-mercury-trade-fuels-toxic-gold-mining-in-latin-america-report.jpg",768,450,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173132-mexicos-rising-mercury-trade-fuels-toxic-gold-mining-in-latin-america-report-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173132-mexicos-rising-mercury-trade-fuels-toxic-gold-mining-in-latin-america-report-300x176.jpg",300,176,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173132-mexicos-rising-mercury-trade-fuels-toxic-gold-mining-in-latin-america-report.jpg",640,375,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173132-mexicos-rising-mercury-trade-fuels-toxic-gold-mining-in-latin-america-report.jpg",640,375,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173132-mexicos-rising-mercury-trade-fuels-toxic-gold-mining-in-latin-america-report.jpg",768,450,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173132-mexicos-rising-mercury-trade-fuels-toxic-gold-mining-in-latin-america-report.jpg",768,450,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173132-mexicos-rising-mercury-trade-fuels-toxic-gold-mining-in-latin-america-report.jpg",768,450,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173132-mexicos-rising-mercury-trade-fuels-toxic-gold-mining-in-latin-america-report.jpg",768,450,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173132-mexicos-rising-mercury-trade-fuels-toxic-gold-mining-in-latin-america-report-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}