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NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns has stepped in to try and save a mining project after federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek put a stop to part of it.
Alcoa, Anglo American, BHP, Glencore, and Rio Tinto have all vowed to tighten environmental restrictions around their mining activities.
A complete reversal of previous government’s policy.
After being discovered during the Gold Rush in 1853, the mine produced about 2.4 million ounces of gold before it closed.
Sodium cyanide and its industrial uses have been a topic of discussion in China recently, after the Tianjin explosions.
Gold is easier to smuggle than conflict minerals, militant groups have found. Child labor and violence in the Congo persist despite U.S. legislation on importing.
The group Survival International said that an alleged massacre in July in Venezuela of members of the Yanomami tribe at the hands of illegal gold miners did not take place.
