2019
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Turkeys biggest silver mine is owned by Eti Silver Corporation (privatised in 2004) and is located in Kutahyas Tavsanli district. The mine activity uses cyanide for extracting and processing the silver element; recently, cyanide loaded water leaked from the immense storage pools and reached the groundwater as a result of an accident due to excessive rains. This accident provoked disastrous groundwater pollution and has raised the question of the already alarming level of groundwater contamination.
Source: Ejatlas
ACTORS
IMPACTS
Visible
- Deforestation and loss of vegetation cover - Environmental
- Loss of landscape / aesthetic degradation - Environmental
Potential
- Accidents - Health
- Deaths - Health
- Groundwater pollution or depletion - Environmental
- Land dispossession - Social
- Loss of landscape / aesthetic degradation - Environmental
- Loss of traditional knowledge/practices/cultures - Social
- Mine tailing spills - Environmental
- Other environmental impacts - Environmental
- Waste overflow - Environmental
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