Giant Mine sits near Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Once it was a productive gold mine, but after the gold ran out, the mining company went bankrupt and left the government to clean up the mess: enough arsenic trioxide dust to kill everyone on Earth. The solution: freezing it, at least for now.
Thanks to all the team at the Giant Mine Remediation Project! More about them: www.aadnc-aandc...
There's an error in this video: I say "200,000 tonnes of gold", but that's actually 200,000kg. The 200,000 tonne figure is for arsenic dust. You can see all corrections for this channel at www.tomscott.c...
The history of Giant Mine and the local First Nation people, a story I'm not qualified to tell: www.cbc.ca/news...
Edited by Michelle Martin / @onthecrux
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