Yukon gold mine spill one of two ‘most catastrophic failures’ in heap-leach mining history, expert says

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An engineer tasked with reviewing the spill of about two million tonnes of cyanide-soaked ore at a Yukon gold mine says it was one of the two “most catastrophic failures” in the 45-year history of the heap-leaching mining process.
Mark Smith says those disasters last year, the other…

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