Environmental cost of Kyrgyzstan’s gold mine

"Kumtor will be mining according to its approved mining plan for 2014 which will include managing the ice as we have done every year prior to this in our approved mining plans."
Wooden, who has researched gold mining politics in Kyrgyzstan for seven years, said public concerns about the mine was mainly about water quality, including how to keep a waste water pit maintained and, also, fear of accidents like the 1998 cyanide spill that still resonates in one of the poorest countries in the region.
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