RAGM had began a multi-million dollar operation using a new method known as ‘carbon-in-leach’ to extract gold from tailings left behind from decades of conventional mining.
This method has an 80% efficacy rate of extracting gold, a far more effective but expensive way compared to shaft mining. But it also carries more risk.
According to the project’s EIA, 400 tonnes of sodium cyanide, a highly toxic compound is used in the facility every year.

That translates to 1.5 tonnes a day.
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