The mine tailings of the Hutti gold mine is called ‘The Cyanide
Mountain’ by the locals of Hutti town in North Karnataka, due to the
high amount of sodium cyanide in the tailings.................
The Executive Director had assured the district administration, ‘that
it is true that cyanide has caused damages in around 23 survey numbers
of Hutti Village’, and that there will be an increase in the
compensation paid to farmers after the company has acquired their land
for the use to dump mine tailings, and that ‘compensation will be paid
without further delay.’
Yet the farmers of Hutti remain in a problematic predicament as the
town of Hutti has no other source of employment or livelihood besides
farming, or as a job in the mine. Farmers who lost their land to
pollution, where a soil sample report by an Agricultural University in
Raichur even mentioned that the land is un-cultivatable for the next 25
years, have been demanding jobs in the company as a compensation, and
yet live in a state of dependency and fear.
http://moonchasing.wordpress.com/2014/02/08/the-vengeful-ghosts-of-a-gold-mine/
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