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Keywords
Aurul SA Gold Mine
Children
Day
Esmeralda Exploration Ltd.
Gold mining
Indigenous People
KWCI (GPI)
Local population
Outdoors
Pollution
Toxics (campaign title)
Cyanide Spill at Aurul Goldmine in Romania
Kid showing dead fish in well, Bozinta, Romania. Cyanide spill has poisoned water.
Restrictions
NO FUNDRAISING
Unique identifier:
GP0TH6
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
01/02/2000
Locations:
Baia Mare
,
Eastern Europe
,
Romania
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Jim Hodson
Size:
3075px × 2061px 1MB
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
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Cyanide Spill at Aurul Goldmine in Romania
Toxic spill On January 30th 2000, the dam containing toxic waste material from the Baia Mare Aurul gold mine in north western Romania burst and released 100.000 cubic meters of waste water, heavily contaminated with cyanide, into the Lapus and Somes tributaries of the river Tisza, one of the biggest in Hungary.
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