This is a list of gold mining disasters including environmental, such as those arising due to
dam failure, cyanide leakage into the environment, as well as inappropriate environmental
toxic waste discharge due to the
gold cyanidation
Gold cyanidation (also known as the cyanide process or the MacArthur-Forrest process) is a hydrometallurgical technique for extracting gold from low-grade ore by converting the gold to a water-soluble coordination complex. It is the most commonly ...
technique
used in gold mining. Other disasters at gold mines such as those resulting in loss of life are also listed.
References
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External links
Summit declaration, Peoples' Gold Summit, San Juan Ridge, California; June 1999
Air pollution caused by mercury and lead emissions from the artisanal gold mining; Blacksmith Institute Report; 2012
Gold
Gold mining disasters
Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile me ...
Gold mining