TGR: There have been international press reports of protests about the use of cyanide refining methods at Pueblo Viejo. Can you talk about that?
Scott Jobin-Bevans: Cyanide is a natural part of most refractory gold recovery processes. It's very well managed. We've obviously had problems when things went wrong but it's not to be treated lightly. It's cyanide. It's poisonous. Cyanide breaks down very quickly under UV light like sunlight and dissipates within hours. An interesting analogy can be drawn between the presence of metallurgical cyanide as used in gold extraction and how cyanide occurs naturally in the environment.
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