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Mercury traces expose Inca mining boom

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Peruvian lake sediments reveal extensive activity of past civilizations at 'mine of death'.

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  1. Cooke, C., Balcom, P. H., Biester, H. & Wolfe, A. P. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA doi:10.1073/pnas.0900517106 (2009).

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Cressey, D. Mercury traces expose Inca mining boom. Nature (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2009.488

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