“Soon after the mine began operating we found seeps in the tailings impoundment leaking cyanide contaminated water and they were collected in a big well and pumped back to the unlined tailings impoundment.
“After 2008 we had no access, nor requests for monitoring. I visited the site in May 2011 and IGEA was just trying to keep it under control, no remediation (cleanup). I took two more water samples just to better understand what is happening.
“Cyanide levels in mine waters are slowly declining, however, the mix of mineralized rocks in open pits, tailings impoundments, waste rock from the mine; all are increasingly acidic and leaching out metals. The two pit lakes have a pH of 2!
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