![From the series: Sean Hawkey: Small-Scale Gold Mining A miner has washed away stone sediment to leave behind this mercury-gold amalgam known as 'asoga.' The miner manually squeezes out liquid mercury to leave the harder part of the amalgam, loaded with gold particles. Don't do this at home - mercury is absorbed by the skin.](https://acurator.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sean-Hawkey-Gold-Mining-aCurator-12.jpg)
![From the series: Sean Hawkey: Small-Scale Gold Mining A miner has washed away stone sediment to leave behind this mercury-gold amalgam known as 'asoga.' The miner manually squeezes out liquid mercury to leave the harder part of the amalgam, loaded with gold particles. Don't do this at home - mercury is absorbed by the skin.](https://acurator.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Sean-Hawkey-Gold-Mining-aCurator-12.jpg)
A miner has washed away stone sediment to leave behind this mercury-gold amalgam known as 'asoga.' The miner manually squeezes out liquid mercury to leave the harder part of the amalgam, loaded with gold particles. Don't do this at home - mercury is absorbed by the skin.