Turkiye detains firm director as a part of inquiry into gold mine landslide that left 9 lacking | World Information

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ISTANBUL: Authorities in Turkiye detained on Sunday the director of the corporate managing a gold mine the place a large landslide within the nation’s east left 9 employees lacking, native media stated. An enormous landslide engulfed on Tuesday the Anagold Madencilik firm’s Copler mine within the city of Ilic in Turkiye’s mountainous Erzincan province, trapping the employees below tons of rubble, and turning into a possible environmental catastrophe.
The landslide concerned a mound of soil extracted from the mine, Inside Minister Ali Yerlikaya beforehand stated.
Cengiz Demirci, Turkiye director and senior vp of operations on the Denver-based SSR Mining Inc., Anagold’s dad or mum firm, was detained on Sunday morning. Earlier this week, authorities additionally detained eight different Copler mine workers as a part of the investigation into the catastrophe, six of whom had been formally arrested.
A whole bunch of search and rescue personnel are nonetheless searching for the employees who’ve been lacking for six days to this point.
Turkiye’s Setting Ministry introduced Saturday it was cancelling Anagold’s environmental allow and license.
Specialists warned the landslide may very well be an environmental hazard because the soil was laced with harmful substances, together with cyanide, utilized in gold extraction. They stated it might have an effect on the close by Euphrates River which stretches throughout Turkiye, Syria and Iraq. The ministry had closed down a stream resulting in the river to stop water air pollution.
In 2020, the identical mine was shut down following a cyanide leak into the Euphrates, roughly 3 kilometres away. It reopened two years later after the corporate was fined and a cleanup operation accomplished.
Shares at SSR Mining plummeted over 50 per cent within the wake of Tuesday’s catastrophe.
Turkiye has a poor mine security document.
In 2022, an explosion on the Amasra coal mine on the Black Beach killed 41 employees. The nation’s worst mining catastrophe passed off in 2014 at a coal mine within the municipality of Soma, in western Turkiye, the place 301 individuals had been killed.

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