While American media are just taking notice of the story, the people of Greece have been paying attention for a long time. A protest about the gold mine attracted 3,000 people this past November. Another protest took place on Jan. 12 in Athens, with several hundred people attending. Protestors chanted "Yes to water, no to gold. Take your cyanide and get out," according to a report from Agence France-Presse. Cyanide is a frequently used in open-pit gold mining to extract the precious metal from ore, although there are no indications it would be used in this case.
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