Everyone from Emo, Nestor Falls, Fort Frances and the surrounding area!! Please read and share! Huge mine production plant will be built near our back yard & use cyanide. The cyanide process can potentially damage health and the environment along with it possibly tourism, logging (the trees due to disease), and property values. (Tourism to pristine natural places is becoming a huge money maker in resort areas.) The plant will close when the gold is gone but its effects (waste, etc.) could remain. Push for one of the safer alternatives than cyanide. Map at end of report (link below). It is located 50 kilometres northwest of Fort Frances. newgold/files/doc_downloads/doc_rainyriver/volume%202/Vol2_RRP_Final_EA_Section_1_Introduction.pdf They are trying to get permits in place by late 2014 or early 2015. --- More on cyanide in mining, the waste, and the effects on miners: Highly toxic sodium cyanide (NaCN) is used increasingly by the international mining community to extract gold and other precious metals through milling of high grade ores and heap leaching of low grade ores. . . Milling and heap leaching require cycling of millions of liters of alkaline water containing high concentrations of potentially toxic NaCN, free cyanide, and metal cyanide complexes that are frequently accessible to wildlife. Some milling operations result in tailings ponds of 150 ha and larger. . . All of these cyanidecontaining water bodies are hazardous to wildlife if not properly managed. Non-hazardous domestic solid wastes during operations will likely be hauled to an off-site LANDFILL. Hazardous solid and liquid waste will be hauled off site by licenced contractors to licenced STORAGE facilities. -New Gold WHERE IS THE LANDFILL GOING TO BE.? WHERE IS THE STORAGE FACILITY? As for the workers - The most common occupational diseases that workers are likely to develop as a result of long-term exposure in the gold mining environment are silicosis, silico-tuberculosis, pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), obstructive airways disease, occupational asthma, oral and/or nasal cavity erosions, diseases owing to ionising radiation, noise-induced hearing loss, whole body and hand-arm vibration syndrome, as well as repetitive strain injuries,” says Mepha. The surrounding communities, which are referred to as nonoccupationally exposed populations, reside in close proximity to the gold mining activities and can be affected at various levels. Prolonged exposure to gold mining activi- ties can cause many life-long problems for workers.
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 22:26:35 +0000
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