@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... One of the guys from (I think) FSOL started having mental health issues some years ago. It took a while for doctors to track down what was going wrong with him and it turns out is was leachate from a mercury amalgam filling that he had. He was lucky that they figured it out. That's the same root as the expression "mad as a hatter."

Then there's Minamata disease, where mercury comes up through the food chain and bioaccumulates at every level.

Nasty, nasty stuff.

Any miner or manufacturer that deals with this stuff should be personally responsible for any downstream harms caused by it.