Yes, in recent years, there have been repeated incidents of illegal use of sodium cyanide for gold washing in Sanmenxia City. As early as 2011, Caojiaoyao forest farm in Shanxian County (now Shanzhou District) had been used to pan for gold by heap leaching with highly toxic sodium cyanide, and was exposed by the media.
According to reports, the scene is piled with nearly 10,000 tons of gold ore, down the rock is a large pit, which are dipped with sodium cyanide heap of black and yellow cyanide toxic water, the water is flooded with thick white foam. Nearby there are several large pits for cyanide poison water precipitation, pungent odor unbearable.
After the incident, the local environmental protection department stepped in to deal with it. And the reporter noted that the incident in this case was adjacent to Jianli village, only a few kilometers away.
The referee's website also disclosed a case of hole-washing that took place in the town of Xizhangcun. The paperwork shows that in April 2017, there had been an introduction to illegal mining in an abandoned mine hole in the 66th vein of the Caojiaoyao Forest Farm in Xizhangcun Town, Shanzhou District, Sanmenxia City. The hole-washing people funded the purchase of generators, pumps and other hole-washing equipment, in collaboration with others to use cyanide in the hole spraying gold selection, and the wastewater produced by the hole-washing is directly discharged in the hole.
Sanmenxia City, Shanzhou District Environmental Monitoring Station monitoring, the washing of the hole discharged in the wastewater content of 284mg / L. In this regard, the Sanmenxia Intermediate People's Court ruled that the two are guilty of pollution of the environment, sentenced to a fine of 10,000 yuan.
In addition, it was reported a month ago that four men of Shaanxi nationality were found dead in a closed gold mine in Dahu Village, Yangping Town, Lingbao City, a suburb of Sanmenxia City, as a result of "hole-washing".
Du Shiqing, a family member of one of the dead men, told the New Beijing News that on April 9, two contractors promised his father that they would pick him up and take him to work in pits nine and ten at the Dongyu mine in Dahu village for a salary of 10,000 yuan a month. "Before going there, my father did not know it was an illegal hole washing, thinking it was a regular contracted gold mine." The night of June 3, the family and Du Hongzu lost contact, 6 years 12 learned that Du Hongzu has been killed in the mine. Just a month past, July 6, a hundred kilometers away from each other Zazhagou and a new fatal accident.
Local government organizes gold mining company to re-seal abandoned mine hole
After the two incidents occurred one after another, the local government began to organize the gold mining company to re-seal the abandoned mine hole.On July 9, the reporter saw a letter issued by the public security bureau of Sanmenxia city, the city's natural resources and planning bureau, the municipal emergency management bureau, both in Shanzhou district and Lingbao city. The three departments issued a "notice on cracking down on illegal and criminal activities of mining mineral resources".
The said Circular states that in order to effectively strengthen the protection and management of mineral resources in the city, and to crack down on the mining of gold, aluminum and other mineral resources in the city, in accordance with the Chinese People's Mineral Resources Law, the Chinese People's Penal Code, the Chinese People's Environmental Protection Law, etc., the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government decided to carry out a rigorous crackdown on illegal and criminal activities of mining within the city from today onwards, and to take measures to prevent the illegal and criminal activities of mining. The municipal government has decided to carry out a special campaign to crack down on the theft and exploitation of mineral resources within the city from now on.
The Circular emphasizes that mineral resources are owned by the state, and must be approved by the relevant state departments and obtain legal mining permits and other relevant certificates before they can be mined, and any person who fails to obtain the relevant certificates without authorization to engage in the mining of mineral resources is a pirate mining of mineral resources.
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