An equipment operator’s bulldozer was pulled into the landslide at Victoria Gold’s Eagle mine on June 24. Submitted photo.
It followed on the same day the company’s first printed statement since July 12, which said it continues to find “trace amounts” of cyanide, used in gold mining to separate the metal form ore, in a local creek. It’s proposing to send some of the contaminated water on site back to the heap leach pad so that containment ponds aren’t overwhelmed.
Local contamination appears to be limited to one creek and the government is helping with the cleanup. The local First Nation has called for a moratorium on all mining in its traditional territory.
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