A gold mine abandoned by an Australian company and threatening a possible environmental disaster in the Solomon Islands is up for sale.
Australian-based mining company St Barbara sold Gold Ridge to the landowners in May for just $A100 after losing hundreds of millions of dollars on the project.
Land owners are now in a race against time to find a new investor to reopen the mine and secure its tailing dam.
“That’s the most difficult thing we are trying to do,” said Ben Afuga, a local landowner and a director of GoldRidge Community Investment, the mine’s current owner.
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/07/07/bid-find-saviour-solomons-gold-mine-amid-toxic-sludge-fears
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