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Gold, deforestation, and mercury import increases over time in the Peruvian Amazon

International biweekly gold prices, forest conversion to mining area, and annual mercury imports to Peru (Superintendencia Nacional de Aduanas del Peru). Mercury imports for 2009 were recorded to September and projected for the last quarter. (Source: Swenson JJ, Carter CE, Domec JC, Delgado CI. Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: global prices, deforestation, and mercury imports. PLoS One 2011;6[4]:e18875. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [CC BY 4.0] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.)