Greetings from Colombia!
This photo was taken on July 9, 2023, in a village in the municipality of Zaragoza in the department of Antioquia, Colombia. Here I have started my research journey to document and characterize the use of local plants in gold recovery with my advisor, Dr. Kathleen Smits. In Colombia, many artisanal miners use this ancient practice that has been ignored for years and could represent an environmentally responsible alternative to mercury use in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). Hopefully, this work will also highlight the importance of local knowledge in formulating engineering projects.
Linda Jaramillo Urrego, Ph.D. Student at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA.
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The thing is that it can happen every now and then. Whatever you don’t try and recoup the money
you lost.