The melting Arctic permafrost is unleashing mining's 'toxic' legacy

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An abandoned gold mine in Canada is known as a "sleeping monster" by Indigenous locals – because it contains enough arsenic to kill 1.7 trillion people.
Giant Mine, near the subarctic city of Yellowknife, was once one of the biggest gold mines in the Northwest Territories, said The Wall…

This story appeared on theweek.com, 2025-05-15 14:26:59.
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