The cyanide leaching gold recovery process is a nonsustainable technology with unacceptable impacts on ecosystems and humans: the disaster in Romania.
The statements and discussions in this commentary are based on the disastrous situation near Baia Mare in Romania, where a dam of a cyanide basin burst on January 30, 2000, with serious consequences.
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Department of Ecological Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Schulstrasse 10, D-85356 Freising-Attaching, Germany.
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Coulston
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D003486:Cyanides / Q000633:toxicity*; D017753:Ecosystem; D006046:Gold; D006801:Humans; D008906:Mining; D012383:Romania
D003486:Cyanides; D006046:Gold