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Mercury: Sources, Measurements, Cycles and Effects by M.B. Parsons & J.B. Percival (eds). Mineralogical Association of Canada Short Course Series 34, 2005 CDN$ 50.

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This book follows a similar style to those already published in this highly successful series. As with the more recent issues, the book is in larger format of 8.5''x11''. This is the fourth environmental volume in the series and focuses exclusively on one of the most regulated (yet poorly researched by comparison to lead and arsenic) elements, mercury.

The volume has been well edited with comparatively few typographic mistakes. A minor point but one worth noting is that the book could perhaps have done with more thought as to organization of later chapters which jump between aquatic and gaseous mercury chemistry, blended with chapters on mercury interactions with the biosphere.

The content covers a broad range of topics related to mercury, although I was surprised to see no account of artisan mining and gold amalgamation (other than a brief historical overview in Chapter 1 and an expanded section in Chapter 2). This is, perhaps, one of the more significant sources of mercury pollution in many . . . [Full Text of this Article]