Romanians protest Canadian-owned gold mining operation

At issue for the protesters is the use of cyanide, which is widely used in gold extraction projects around the world.
The country suffered a major environmental disaster in 2000, when approximately 100,000 cubic metres of cyanide-laced water spilled over a dam at the Baia Mare mine, in the northwest town of Oradea.
An estimated 100 tonnes of the toxic compound spilled into the Somes river before winding up in Hungary’s Tisza River and in then into the Danube river, flowing through parts of Hungary and the former Yugoslavia (now Serbia).
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