Who awarded Barrick Gold approval for good use of cyanide?
The International Cyanide Management Institute is an entity created by the very transnational mining companies themselves. They were asked to so by a committee which united the companies involved in chemical mining, within the framework of the Environmental Program of the United Nations. This meeting arose from the havoc created the uncontrolled use of cyanide in mining, as it was clearly time to clean the image of an activity causing contamination and impacts from day one of operations. The goal is to gain the social license to operate which has been denied by communities either affected or about to be affected by large-scale open-pit mining operations utilizing cyanide. The committee created the International Cyanide Management Code to cover the manufacturing, transport and use of cyanide in gold mining production. Nothing is said about sulfuric acid or the other chemicals used in the mining of other minerals, such as copper, uranium; only gold. Nowhere in the certification process i
