Yukon government directs mining company to implement 'safeguard' measures after spill

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Yukon mines minister John Streicker says the territorial government has directed Victoria Gold to stabilize the area where the Eagle Gold mine disaster happened and more closely monitor surface and groundwater near the slide site.

Victoria Gold's Eagle gold mine site north of Mayo, Y.T., is shown in this handout aerial photo taken July 3, 2024. Yukon mines minister John Streicker says the Eagle Gold mine disaster has the territory's residents "justly concerned" about the implications of the mining spill on Yukoners' way of life "for generations to come."

At a technical briefing Thursday, Streicker told reporters that testing of samples from Haggart Creek last week 2 kilometres downstream from the site detected no cyanide, but officials say people should not consume water or fish from the creek even though risk to human health is "very low." Shelley Duvall, the intrepid, Texas-born movie star whose wide-eyed, winsome presence was a mainstay in the films of Robert Altman and who co-starred in Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining,' has died. She was 75.The world's population is expected to grow by more than two billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion, a new report by the United Nations said Thursday.

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