Socioeconomic and Mercury Exposure to The Goldsmiths in Manggal Subdistrict of Urban Artisanal Gold Mining (UAGM) Area in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Abbas, Hasriwiani Habo and Sakakibara, MasayukI and Sera, Koichiro and Arma, Lumanul Hakim (2020) Socioeconomic and Mercury Exposure to The Goldsmiths in Manggal Subdistrict of Urban Artisanal Gold Mining (UAGM) Area in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Earth and Environmental Science, 589 (012015). pp. 1-8. ISSN 1755-1315

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Abstract

People living in gold mining towns experience high inorganic mercury levels whenmercury vapor is emitted during the burning of amalgam as well as gold dorè in gold shops.These activities occur in Makassar, Indonesia, where a group of urban people established anartisanal waste recycling industry, in which they use mercury to recover the fine gold particlescontained in the waste from goldsmiths’ activities. The goldsmith in Manggala is one of UAGMactivities to design and manufacture of the unique gold jewelry. Mercury exposure to thegoldsmith was happened through gold refining process. The aims of this research are tocharacterize the socioeconomic and potential mercury exposure to the goldsmith workers. Thesocioeconomic characterization of goldsmith was obtained by questionnaire survey, in-depthinterviews and mercury exposure in hair was analyzed by using Particle-induced X-ray emission(PIXE) from Iwate Medical University. The result showed that the goldsmith workers inManggala sub district is better than the other gold workers in Makassar in term of income andeducation. The lower education was graduated from elementary school and the higher educationwas graduated from the university. The monthly income of goldsmiths are unskilled, skilled andowner, <US$ 376 (29%), US$ 376-751 (61%), >751 (11%), respectively. The goldsmiths wereexposure by mercury through the refining process in the gold. Therefore, it’s found that theaverage mercury concentration in hair is 6.6 μg/g (min-max:1.6-47.7 μg/g). The concentrationof mercury in human hair of goldsmith is 5.03 μg/g, for indirect exposed and 8.18 μg/g for directexposed. This result indicate that the level of mercury is seriously problem according to HBMthreshold limit. Therefore, mercury exposure from UAGM activities must be prevented beforethe greater impact on society.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RL Dermatology
Divisions:	FAKULTAS KESEHATAN MASYARAKAT
Depositing User:	Unnamed user with email admin@umi.ac.id
Date Deposited:	31 Mar 2021 02:35
Last Modified:	18 Aug 2021 02:24
URI:	http://repository.umi.ac.id/id/eprint/232

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