MEPS SEEK BAN ON CYANIDE MINING TECHNOLOGIES
May 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament is seeking a European Union (EU) ban on using cyanide technologies in mining, notably to prevent a repeat of the year 2000 Baia Mare gold mine disaster in Romania. Then toxic tailings were released into the River Danube system when a dam penning them up collapsed. These included cyanide, used to help extract gold from ore. MEPs have now voted to call for a complete EU ban on cyanide mining technologies before December 2011. The idea will have to be backed and formally proposed by the European Commission to go forward. ...
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