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*Mercury and cyanide threat to Sudanese*
*Mohammed Ahmed Afilaba*
August 2, 2015
*There are assertions that the mercury used in the private mining in Sudan without adequate knowledge of the users of the miners and traders, as sold in the market without any controls. On a parallel line, one of the officials indicate that cyanide imports by mining companies in accordance with the tough measures in the country of export and in the Sudan, used in gold extraction in a scientific way.*
*No one turns to the cry of some experts in 2013 when he asserted that most of the miners were young, and they are dealing with a mercury-like table salt. Despite the awareness campaigns that oversaw them out, they did not find a listening ear, the government wants the gold today, and in what manner, with little regard for what might happen tomorrow.*
*Here are the most bang cry issued by the Sudanese Parliament, and heavily covered by the local media. Deputies Northern State in the deaths of a number of animals near the Nile River in Halfa and Dongola and Albrgiq areas bloc has revealed. Mass and attributed it to the use of highly toxic cyanide in gold purification operations in the civil mining areas. And the appointment of a committee of experts and technicians to take over the investigation of the situation.*
*Environmental repercussions on the level of plant and animals in the vicinity of many gold extraction, and perhaps the best known of what happened in Mauritania in 2009, when used Takizast company is drilling 250 km east of the capital Nouakchott, more than 14 tons of cyanide. To deliberately then to throw it in the nature after it was stored in the open. Later the company acknowledged the dangers of the use of cyanide to the environment.* *According to biological expert Mohamed Salem Barklh the “that amount and the method of disposal, justifies the growing concern about the environment adjacent to the refinery’s pollution.” This comes especially after the registration of deaths of animals without any justification in the water adjacent to the points zone.*
*Cyanide is used in cleaning and polishing metals such as gold, silver, and various synthetic rubber industry and chemical industry, which is one of the fastest toxins were killed and deadliest. He was known among the public through the spy movies and intelligence that glorify this poison. Cyanide causes a deficiency in an enormous supply of oxygenated cells by binding to molecules ionized iron. There are more than forty system enzymatically stop their activities when the human body cyanide poisoning. Recent studies have indicated that the inhalation of 200 to 500 part of the hydrogen cyanide present in the molecule of a million air for 30 minutes, resulting in human death.*
*Specializing in environmental affairs*
