#Alaska Native Tribes are fighting a giant proposed gold mine near the Kuskokwim River, which would create acid drainage & a lake of permanently contaminated water. We are representing six Tribes and an Alaska nonprofit to challenge it in court
#EarthJustice
https://earthjustice.org/article/donlin-gold-mine-alaska-tribes
@thedisasterautist But gold, amirite?
@Jezibaba: Gold, yes, though I've never heard of amirite? Is that like pyrite? :P
@thedisasterautist the cherry and apple kind.
@Jezibaba @thedisasterautist It has to be pyrite because if it is noticed there is no py-left?
@jasod @thedisasterautist not if I have a fork.
@Jezibaba It Would Be Far WORSE Than Acid Drainage…Gold Mines World Wide Are KNOWN To Use CYANIDE To Mine The Gold
Deadly Chemicals Can Be Gold Mine
In the mining industry it has been an important component of the gold (and precious metal) extraction process since the late 1800s… Gold will dissolve in an aqueous solution of cyanide, allowing it to be separated from the ore it is found in.
https://www.bvna.com/insight/deadly-chemicals-can-be-gold-mine
@Nordicfae Nefarious, top to bottom. They don't care.
Oh I so feel for them.
We were told of catastrophic possibilities at a meeting earlier this evening. We are battling ourselves here in my tiny town along with two other towns ( some of our property is in one of the other towns ) we are joining hands/forces with. The mining companies are licking thier chops bringing bags of money in trying to buys rights.
They are also going after our Wabanaki Tribes on sacred waterways in Northern Maine.
Sickening.
@KazzyH without ever compensating anyone for the resources they extract. It's been resource theft and people displacement for a hundred years. Longer.
@Jezibaba: ~550mn tons of slag for 30mn ounces of gold is not worth that amount of short- and long-term destruction.