China is the world’s largest producer of gold. The enormous amount of cyanide used in gold mining in China is shocking. China Gold Newsonce ran a detailed report about a gold production company in Inner Mongolia. It indicated that the company mined 23.1 million tons of ore in 2014, producing 5.1 tons of gold. To support its production capacity, the company consumed over 2,000 tons of sodium cyanide each month, which is equivalent to approximately 4.7 tons of sodium cyanide for every 10kg of gold. Taking into account the many smaller gold mining companies and the jewelry industry, China’s annual consumption of cyanide is shocking.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1733371-toxic-cyanide-pollution-from-extracting-gold-is-widespread-in-china/
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