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Burning a lump of mercury-gold amalgam known as "asoga" to remove the mercury as a vapor and leave just the gold. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.

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Burning a lump of mercury-gold amalgam known as "asoga" to remove the mercury as a vapor and leave just the gold. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.