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Freezing 200,000 Tons of Lethal Arsenic Dust
« on: June 18, 2018, 12:24:48 pm »
Freezing 200,000 Tons of Lethal Arsenic Dust
Tom Scott  Published on Jun 18, 2018

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Giant Mine sits near Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Once it was a productive gold mine, but after the gold ran out, the mining company went bankrupt and left the government to clean up the mess: enough arsenic trioxide dust to kill everyone on Earth. The solution: freezing it, at least for now.

Thanks to all the team at the Giant Mine Remediation Project! More about them: http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100027364/1100100027365

The history of Giant Mine and the local First Nation people, a story I'm not qualified to tell: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/canada-150-betsina-family-nwt-1.4180681

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Re: Freezing 200,000 Tons of Lethal Arsenic Dust
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2018, 12:34:33 pm »
Slap a tariff on that shit. 
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Re: Freezing 200,000 Tons of Lethal Arsenic Dust
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2018, 01:20:55 pm »
I thought they were on the way to an answer in 2010?

https://www.nature.com/news/2010/101202/full/news.2010.645.html
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