Cemalettin Küçük, an engineer who co-authored a report on the mine’s safety when its operator sought permission to expand its capacity, said the soil was filled with “stone fragments containing cyanide”.
“We are talking about a mountain weighing millions of tonnes,” Küçük told Turkish media. “We have warned about this many times.”
Mehmet Torun, the former president of the Chamber of Mining Engineers, said that the huge pile of soil sliding towards the Euphrates River consists of materials washed with cyanide and sulphuric acid.
That sounds terrifying as hell … :(
Landslide is plenty bad enough…but with a damn cyanide bonus? Horrific. Those poor miners. I hope they manage to find survivors.
Poison damage on top of a melee attack. The earths not playing this time.
Mining is spooky shit with a deplorable safety record.
That sounds like they’re extra dead.
maybe insensitive but… they’re not actually missing, just crushed by a mountain of toxic soil
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Ali Yerlikaya, Turkey’s interior Minister, said there was no news of nine out of 667 employees at the goldmine, which is in the İliç district of the eastern Erzincan province.
Experts and local officials said the search was complicated by the presence in the ground of cyanide – a highly toxic chemical compound used to extract gold from ore.
“Cyanide soil collapsed” at the site, Independent Mining Labour Union representative, Basaran Aksu, told Turkish media.
The province lies on the northern bank of the Karasu River – a major tributary of the Euphrates, which runs from Turkey to Syria and Iraq.
Cemalettin Küçük, an engineer who co-authored a report on the mine’s safety when its operator sought permission to expand its capacity, said the soil was filled with “stone fragments containing cyanide”.
Mehmet Torun, the former president of the Chamber of Mining Engineers, said that the huge pile of soil sliding towards the Euphrates River consists of materials washed with cyanide and sulphuric acid.
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