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The Baia Mare Cyanide spill

The Baia Mare Cyanide spill. Jan. 30, 2000 Aurul mine in Romania By Erica Yellowknee .

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The Baia Mare Cyanide spill

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  1. The Baia Mare Cyanide spill Jan. 30, 2000 Aurul mine in Romania By Erica Yellowknee

  2. Following a breach in the tailing dam of the Aurul SA Baia Mare Company, a major spill of cyanide-rich tailings waste was released into the river system near Baia Mare in north west Romania. A poisonous chemical has destroyed wildlife and fish stocks and also threatened the water supplies of 2.5 million humans in parts of eastern Europe. Europe’s largest waterway were all polluted. Before the spill the land was so beautiful.

  3. When the chemical spill happened any one who drank the water would have got sick and died. (and animals too) Most of the fish in the water had died so fishermen's couldn’t fish in the water.Workers toiled to prevent more cyanide from spilling to a gold mine and reaching European rivers as children played in the snow near by. The children could get sick and possibly die when they played in the snow.

  4. The poison streamed from the containment dam at the mine near Baia Mare on Jan. 30, 2000, flowing into Yugoslavia on the Szamos and Tisza rivers and back into Romania on the Danube. The cost of the spill was 975 million dollars.

  5. Question • How many people were threatened from the water supply? • How much money did the spill cost? • What was the date that the Baia Mare Cyanide spill happened?

  6. bibliography • http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/green-glossary-baia-mare.html • http://www.rec.org/REC/Publications/CyanideSpill/ • http://www.environmental-expert.com/resulteacharticle.aspx?cid=8887&codi=1324 • http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/0/9/1/8/p109181_index.html • http://www.lenntech.com/environmental-disasters.htm • http://www.reliefweb.int/rwarchive/rwb.nsf/db900sid/ACOS-64CNGF?OpenDocument

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