Cyanide-laced landslide swallows gold mine workers alive | 0TV6868 | 2024-02-14 11:08:01
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This is the harrowing moment a landslide buried as many as 9 staff of a gold mine inside.
Footage captured by a bulldozer driver exhibits the surging mud sweeping via the valley like an enormous volcanic eruption.
Nobody has heard from the workers on the Çöpler gold mine because the disaster happened near the town of Ilic in Turkey.
Interior minister Ali Yerlikaya confirmed that 9 staff have been missing because the landslide struck at about 2.30pm on Tuesday.
Some 400 search and rescue personnel have been deployed to the scene of the incident within the mountainous Erzincan province.
However specialists and local officers stated the search was difficult by the presence of cyanide – a extremely toxic chemical compound used to extract gold from ore – within the ground.
Anagold Mining has operated the Çöpler gold mine for 15 years, with 667 employees usually employed at the website.
In a press release, the company stated its 'most necessary precedence in this troublesome course of … is the well being and safety of our staff and contractors.'
It added: 'This can be a painful state of affairs.
'Immediately after the incident, we immediately contacted our staff within the area, put our emergency plan into motion and informed the related public institutions and organisations.'
There have been a string of mining accidents in Turkey in recent times. In 2022, an explosion in a coal mine killed 42 individuals.
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