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Carbon in pulp gold miners/producers buy it by the hundreds of tonnes, key part of extracting mineralised gold.

While toxicity is very high and thousands of people handle it daily, number deaths at Gold mines is very low - I don't know last time Western Australia had an accidental cyanide death and there are hundreds of mines with 7% of global production from the state.



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