Cleanup Continues Following Massive Cyanide Spill In Yukon River Tributary
Government of the Yukon officials are now overseeing the cleanup following an equipment failure at a major Yukon Territory gold mine that dumped cyanide into a tributary of the Yukon River Alaska’s largest transboundary waterway.
The spill, which dumped enough cyanide to fill more than 120 Olympic sized swimming pools, is expected to result in long term monitoring of its impact on the environment, Yukon officials said.
The incident at Victoria Gold’s Eagle Mine on June 24 released almost 300,000 cubic meters (10.54 million cubic feet) of cyanide solution into a subtributary of the Stewart Watershed in the Yukon Territory and about 10 days later, high levels of cyanide, which is toxic to salmon and other fish, were detected in a nearby creek.
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