A mining project like this would use a process called cyanide amalgamation to extract gold, and this process has left devastation in its wake before, according to an article by Stephen Tuffnell, associate professor of modern US history at the University of Oxford.
In the 1970s, a copper mine in Rosia Montana caused the evacuation of the village of Geamana when its land was needed as a storage space for the mine’s cyanide-contaminated waste. The village now lies abandoned below toxic water.
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