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Acid stripping operations where microchips and processors plucked from circuit boards are soaked in aqua-regia acid solutions to remove small fractions of gold. These operations are numerous, are dangerous to workers and simply dump their wastes into fields and rivers. Guiyu, China. May 2008 ©2008 Basel Action Network (BAN)   Click here to open a high resolution photo

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