Tag: Cyanide leaching
Opposition to Gold Mining at Mount Ida, Turkey
Introduction This conflict concerns the development of gold mining at Mount Ida in the Biga District of western Turkey. Prospecting for gold has been expanding in the region since 2007, leading …
Opposition to gold mining at Bergama, Turkey
For much of the 1990s, the tourist town of Bergama was the epicentre of Turkey’s most effective and visible environmental social movement against a multinational mining corporation aiming to establish …