Brunswick’s provincial government $4 million to buy exclusive uranium
prospecting rights for the next year on a 136,000-hectare area between Sussex
and Moncton. With the approval of the provincial government secured, the mining
giant turned its attention to Moncton.
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A month earlier, the company had paid New Brunswick’s provincial government $4 million to buy exclusive uranium prospecting rights for the next year on a 136,000-hectare area between Sussex and Moncton. With the approval of the provincial government secured, the mining giant turned its attention to Moncton.
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The most imminent threat is a project being carried out by Inco Ltd. of Ontario,
Canada, a leading nickel mining company. In 1999, Inco began construction of a
USD 50 million pilot project in Goro, at the southern end of the island. This
project tested the effectiveness of Inco's new pressure acid leach mining
technology. After two years of testing, Inco began construction of an industrial
mine on the Goro site, which will be 5,000 times the size of the pilot project
and will include portions of the native lands of the indigenous Kanak people.
Pressure acid leach mining, a process in which large quantities of acid
are used to separate nickel and cobalt from mined ore, is a new, proprietary
technology that has never been used in a large-scale operation before. Little is
known about its possible effects on the environment, but a similar process has
been used in gold mines for years, and gold mining companies have frequently
failed to properly treat or store the resulting acid waste.
Such a
failure led to one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. The
Summitville Gold Mine in Colorado had been using a cyanide heap leach operation
to extract microscopic quantities of gold. Although the company was using a
highly toxic acid, it did not properly build its waste storage system, and in
1993 one of the storage lagoons burst. A torrent of acid washed down the Alamosa
River, poisoning seventeen miles of the river and putting drinking supplies and
crops at risk. As late as 2000, large fish kills were documented in the river.
Local ranchers, fishermen and farmers suffered huge economic losses.
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