Cyanide

Groups Call for Action on Cyanide Spills by Multinational Gold Mine in Ghana: International Cyanide Management Institute urged to immediately audit Cyanide Code signatory Golden Star Resources’ Bogoso/Prestea mine in Ghana
Wednesday, July 26, 2006

[EARTHWORKS • FIAN-Germany • FIAN-Ghana • MiningWatch Canada • Oxfam America • WACAM] A group of Ghanaian and international organizations is calling for greater oversight of Golden Star Resources, a multinational mining company that is responsible for causing two cyanide spills in less than two years at its Bogoso/Prestea gold mine in Ghana. The US-Canadian mining company is a signatory to the International Cyanide Management Code, a voluntary initiative for the gold mining industry intended to improve the management of cyanide at gold mines and reduce the incidents of accidents such as cyanide spills. The civil society organizations are urging the International Cyanide Management Institute (ICMI) to immediately audit the Bogoso/Prestea mine and take steps to ensure that local communities are protected from cyanide exposure. As the administrator of the Cyanide Code, ICMI is responsible for ensuring that the operations of signatories are in compliance with the code.

Ghana, Cyanide, Golden Star
Yukon Faces Renewed Mining Problems
Wednesday, August 10, 2005

On March 18-19, MiningWatch Canada facilitated a meeting in Whitehorse to assess resources and capacity in the Yukon to work on mining, prioritize issues, expand working relationships and work on strategies. Invitees included a number of individuals and representatives of local organizations.

Abandoned Mines, Water, Arsenic, Asbestos, Cyanide, Yukon, Newsletter 18: Winter/Spring 2004-2005, Indigenous Rights, Placer Mining, Water and fisheries
Auditor-General Exposes Abandoned Mines/Contaminated Sites Crisis
Saturday, November 30, 2002
On October 22, 2002, Sheila Fraser, the Auditor-General of Canada, released her report on Abandoned Mines in the North. The report lends enormous credibility to everything we have been saying about these toxic time-bombs. The report is available on the Auditor-General's website. Undertaken ...
Abandoned Mines, Canada, Arsenic, Northwest Territories, Cyanide, Newsletter 10: Autumn 2002, Yukon
Communications Update - Newsletter #5
Sunday, March 25, 2001

Last issue, we mentioned the workshop Gaining Ground: Women, Mining and the Environment that was held at Lake LaBerge, Yukon, last September. Well, a booklet has been published out of that workshop, and it is available from the Yukon Conservation Society, Box 4163 Whitehorse, YT Y1A 3S9, tel. (867) 668-5678, fax (867) 668-6637, e-mail ycs@ycs.yk.ca

Newsletter 05: Winter 2001, Cyanide, Women
More Cyanide Uncertainties: Lessons From the Baia Mare, Romania, Spill – Water Quality and Politics
Tuesday, January 30, 2001

Mineral Policy Center Issue Paper #3, by Robert Moran, Ph.D.:

Water, Corporate Accountability, Romania, Cyanide
One Year After Romanian Cyanide Spill, New Report Exposes Shortcomings in Industry-Government Disaster Response
Tuesday, January 30, 2001

MiningWatch Canada and Other Environmental Groups Issue Call to Action to Prevent Future Cyanide Disasters, Point to Danger at Many of Today's Gold Mines: One year after 3.5 million cubic feet of cyanide-laden toxic mine waste spilled into a tributary of the Danube river killing all aquatic life in a 250-mile stretch of the river system. One year later, a report released by the Mineral Policy Center in Washington shows that little has changed in terms of government oversight or industry practice and that such a disaster could occur again today in Romania, Canada and other regions.

Water, Corporate Accountability, Romania, Cyanide
On the Ground Research: A Workshop to Identify the Research Needs of Communities Affected by Large-Scale Mining
Friday, September 1, 2000

On the Ground Research: A Workshop to Identify the Research Needs of Communities Affected by Large-Scale MiningReport from the Workshop held in Ottawa, April 14-16, 2000.

Canada, INCO in Sulawesi, Water, Africa, Ghana, Lead, Sulawesi, Arsenic, Corporate Accountability, Anaconda, Colombia, Nevada, Asbestos, New Mexico, Northwest Territories, Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Papua New Guinea, Cyanide, Ontario, Philippines, Environmental Planning, Economic Development, Guyana, Saskatchewan, Yukon, Mexico, Barrick Gold, Peru, Battle Mountain, Gold, Suriname, Impact on Communities, Cambior, Cameco, Militarisation, Publications, Uranium, Water and fisheries, World Bank/International Financial Institutions, Goldcorp, Golden Star, Newmont, Noranda/Falconbridge, Placer Dome, Teck, Infinito Gold/Vanessa, Xstrata (Falconbridge/Noranda)
World Bank Calls for Ok Tedi Mine Closure Following Romanian Cyanide Spill - Message to BHP: Clean Up Ok Tedi; Message to Mining Industry: Stop Dumping in Rivers
Tuesday, March 7, 2000

Washington, D.C. — A new World Bank report calls on the mining company Broken Hill Proprietary (BHP) to immediately close the troubled Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea due to the environmental damage being caused by the mine. In response to the report, international environmental groups including U.S.-based Mineral Policy Center, the Australia-based Mineral Policy Institute, MiningWatch Canada, and Papua New Guinea's Non-governmental Environmental Watchdog Group, called on BHP to take full responsibility for mine cleanup by implementing a comprehensive mine closure plan.

Water, Ok Tedi Mine - BHP-Billiton/Inmet, Corporate Accountability, Romania, Cyanide, BHP-Billiton, World Bank/International Financial Institutions, Inmet

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