I was logging core once on an RC drill righ that was on a dyke between two cyanide lakes.
The lakes and the dyke were lined with thick black plastic sheeting. Twice I saw the offsiders (the blokes who fill up the core bags) slip on the wet plastic and almost slide into the lake. As the only company man it was probably up to me enforce OHS on the drilling contractors, but I was fresh out of uni and just thought it was part of the job. The cyanide is used for spraying on the heap leach, vast ziggurats of low-grade dirt which it slowly soaks through and recovers a small percentage of the gold as a colloid
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The lakes and the dyke were lined with thick black plastic sheeting. Twice I saw the offsiders (the blokes who fill up the core bags) slip on the wet plastic and almost slide into the lake. As the only company man it was probably up to me enforce OHS on the drilling contractors, but I was fresh out of uni and just thought it was part of the job. The cyanide is used for spraying on the heap leach, vast ziggurats of low-grade dirt which it slowly soaks through and recovers a small percentage of the gold as a colloid
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