In this abandoned mine, 237,000 tonnes of male – capable of killing 1.7 trillion. people

In Groonnaif, a small town of 20,000 inhabitants in Canada, in an abandoned gold mine there are 237,000 tonnes of male capable of killing 1.7 trillion. people and reach the Arctic. In the outskirts of Giant Mine, one of the largest gold mines in the country’s history, 237,000 tonnes of male – enough to kill 1.7 trillion people. This is not an exaggeration: only 140 milligrams of a male trioxide are enough to kill a human. The indigenous inhabitants call this deadly substance “the monster that is sleeping”. For decades, the monster has been imprisoned in the permanently frozen subsoil. The miners and authorities believed that it would stay so frozen, immovable, harmless. But climate change had other plans. The melting of Permafrost, the ever -frozen soil, now gradually releases the deadly load. And fear is clear: Poison can reach the waters of Lake Great Slave, the tenth largest freshwater lake in the world, and from there to roll […]
Source: News Beast

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