The open-pit gold mine run by Centerra's Kumtor Operating Company subsidiary, which accounts for 12 per cent of the impoverished country's economy, has been the source of a string of toxic spills in past years, including a cyanide spill into a river.
Kyrgyzstan, a country of five million people on China's mountainous western border, has come to prominence in recent years because it hosts a U.S. air base used to support military operations in nearby Afghanistan.
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