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Baia Mare Cyanide Spill 1/30/2000
January 30th,2000
Cyanide spill occurs at Baia Mare, Romania. Hurts many ocean lives and birds.
The Damage
''More than 1,400 tons of fish have died as a result to the dissaster. Some birds were harmed to.
The Damage
A team of miners were mining for gold when it hit a big area full of Cyanide and it exploded then flooded the whole town.
Serbia's enironment minister, Branislav Blazic put sighns everywhere saying to not eat the fish in the ocean or drink any of the water.
Cyanide is a highly lethal systematic poison causing rapid death. There are different types of Cyanide. Hydrogen Cyanide (Gas), Potassium and sodium cyanide (solid).
The spill cost more than 170 million dollars to clean up.
More than 2.5 million people in Hungary had their water contaminated by cyanide.
Wildlife was impacted by the Baia Mare Cyanide leak. 80% of all aquatic life was destroyed.
When fish are exposed to Cyanide their swimming ability is redused.
Environmental groups are attempting to have cyanide heap-leaching banned as a method to mine for gold.
following the Baia Mare cyanide spill the amount of cyanide in the Somes River was more than 700 times the levels permitted.
http://www.toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Baia+Mare+Cyanide+Spill
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/health-threat-grows-in-cyanide-spill/
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