Publisher's Note: It is not just the chemicals like cyanide
that create the toxicity, it is the act of mining that
disturbs the heavy metals below.
Farmers resent miners for the damage they do to the land,
but rarely come out and say that they did a lot of damage
to country and to original inhabitants by colonising,
squatting, fencing off, clearing land and people who
lived here for thousands of years managing country
without fences.
- Ian Curr, September 2015
Queensland authorities fear a series of ponds containing heavy metals and cyanide could overflow from an abandoned mining site and spill into a nearby river in the Murray-Darling Basin – ABC report
