From the Reno Gazette Journal
For the first time, Nevada precious metal mines this year were required to measure and report mercury released from smokestacks to the Nevada Department of Environmental Protection, the only state with such a requirement.
"We don't think that anybody truly knows what the releases are," Randolph said. "We do think that it's undermonitored and underreported."
Reno-based Glamis Gold Ltd. officials admitted in October they underreported five years of mercury air emissions by more than 434 pounds at the Marigold Mine in Humboldt County. "We weren't trying to hide anything, otherwise we wouldn't have ... re-calculated our emissions," said Joe Danni, vice president of corporate relations for Glamis Gold Ltd.
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