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Efforts to clean up a massive cyanide spill at the Eagle gold mine in the Yukon have faltered after the receivership of Victoria Gold Corp., potentially posing new threats for the environment, a former top engineer at the company says.
Four million tonnes of cyanide-laced rocks collapsed at the company’s outdoor gold-processing facility in late June, causing massive damage to mine infrastructure and contamination. About two million tonnes of contaminated materials broke through the company’s containment zone and spilled into the local environment, killing fish and raising concerns about groundwater pollution.
In the weeks after the disaster, the Yukon government issued numerous directives to Toronto-based Victoria Gold to address the spill, including building additional water storage sites for contaminated water, treating the effluent and an order to build a containment berm aimed at protecting the site in the event of a new rock collapse.
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