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Cyanide Mining Will Go the Way of the Dodo Bird

[Canadude]

Here is yet another example of one country's (Brazil) way to deal with cyanide gold mining. The intolerance for cyanide use worldwide is quickly taking hold. 

Brazil suspends Belo Sun's gold mine licence, stock collapses

In February, a group of locals who opposed the project asked Par authorities to suspend the recently issued construction licence for Volta Grande. They oppose the company’s planned use of cyanide during extraction of the precious metal, arguing that waste will be deposited in a dam located just 1.5 km from the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon, which poses risks in case of a dam collapse as it happened in 2015, after the Samarco dam burst in the south-eastern state of Minas Gerais, which killed 19 people and polluted water streams.

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