Do effluents from gold mines have something to worry about?
In line with peoples concerned, this study was conducted based on two important facts about Gold mine effluents/pollutants: • Some of existing cases of environmental disastrous resulting from gold mining effluents in other parts of the world The first reason of why we carried out this study lied on the fact that there are so many examples that show that pollution from gold mining real occurs. i. About 130,000 cubic meters of cyanide-tainted water flowed into the Lupes, Somes, and eventually into the Tisza and Danube rivers in Romania and Hungary respectively, covering over 400 kilometers (Nicolas, 2004). ii. In Australia, despite government assurances that the Timbarra Gold Mine was a world best-practice mine, there were overflows from the toxic wastewater ponds into the surroundings. Other disasters in Australia occurred earlier in 1995, when a failure to monitor cyanide levels at the North Parkes copper-gold mine caused the death of over a thousand birds. Again in the year 2002, cyan
