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Istanbul (AFP) Feb 14, 2024 - Calls grew in Turkey on Wednesday to shut down a controversial gold mine as hopes dimmed of rescuing nine workers trapped by a massive landslide that rolled over their open pit.

ISTANBUL, Feb 14, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Hundreds of Turkish rescuers on Tuesday searched through a cyanide-laced field for nine gold mine

Rescue operation for trapped miners complicated by cyanide in soil

Hundreds of Turkish rescuers on Tuesday searched through a cyanide-laced field for nine gold mine workers who were swallowed by a massive landslide that rolled over their open pit. Images from the scene showed the landslide sweeping across a valley and crashing into a road where some of the workers were travelling by vehicle. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said there was no news of nine out of 667 employees at the mine, which is in the remote Ilic district of the eastern Erzincan province.

Calls grew in Turkey on Wednesday to shut down a controversial gold mine as hopes dimmed of rescuing nine workers trapped by a massive landslide that rolled over their open pit.

Several miners may have been trapped under rubble following a large landslide that occurred in a gold mine in the eastern mountains of Turkey on Tuesday.

 Authorities on Wednesday detained four people in connection with a massive landslide that engulfed a gold mine in eastern Türkiye, leaving at least nine workers missing, Turkish state media reported. The landslide struck the Anagold Madencilik company's Copler mine in the town of Ilic in Türkiye's mountainous Erzincan province on Tuesday. Video seemingly shot by a worker showed a huge mass of earth rushing down a gully, overrunning everything in its path. The landslide involved a m...

Calls grew in Turkey to shut down a controversial gold mine as hopes dimmed of rescuing nine workers trapped by a massive landslide.

The disaster happened yesterday at 2:30pm local time at Copler Mine in the Turkish town of Llic in the countrys mountainous Erzincan province.

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