Miners are at risk in gold-cyanide lines
Monday, 02 March 2009
El Dorado .- Hundreds of miners who had invaded gaps queue gold cyanide La Camorra mine, are reluctant to leave the site in spite of warnings and calls made by the security authorities.

Miners who remain from last year within and outside the dam that forms the gap Tail No. 3, claim to have found a gold bulla in that gap and how this now belongs to the Venezuelan state will not be drawn until all material deposited there.

Civil and military authorities have been on the site since the artisanal mining in the lagoon is considered high risk to humans, due to the material containing gold deposited there some level of cyanide, to be lethal human.

According to work done by experts in environmental material in this zone is being violated Article 80 of the Basic Law on Environment in its paragraphs 1, 4, 5, 13 and 20, as well as Article 6 of the Law on Chemicals and Waste dangerous.

The miners entered the area to glue the gaps through trails or clubs, where some have placed temporary tents, staying in place for long hours without any protection for the right to access these areas cyanide.

This action increases the risk of contamination to the subject, perhaps by negligence or ignorance, there exists the danger, and queal entering this gap in cyanide-bearing tail remained in contact with this deadly chemical, which penetrates to humans through your skin by attacking the living cells, so in a short period of time the individual begins to suffer dizziness, numbness, physical discomfort, even death.

It is urgent that the actions of government authorities and thus preventing a collective pollution in the area.