BCAC chairman Wong Kin Hoong said that a door-to-door survey conducted in May showed that half of the residents staying near the area were suffering from poor health.
“The concentration of the illnesses such as eye irritation, skin rashes, and persistent bad cough is within the two-kilometre radius from the gold mining area,” claimed Wong.
He said that if the gold mine operator Raub Australia Gold Mine (RAGM) was confident that it was not causing health problems, it would have not barred the NGO from gathering details on its operations and its waste discharge.
He also dismissed Liow’s claims that cyanide was used to mine gold for centuries, saying that it was only in February 2009 that RAGM started using cyanide at the mine.
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