Northwest Territories: Guardians Of Eternity - Video On Dene And Yellowknife's Giant Mine

Northwest Territories: Guardians Of Eternity - Video On Dene And Yellowknife's Giant Mine   Situated in canada's far north, Yellowknife's Giant Mine produced 7 million ounces of gold between 1948 and 1999. They took the gold away and left 237,000 tonnes of arsenic behind, enough to poison the entire planet several times over. Mary Rose, an aboriginal woman of the Dene people, lives in a community next to the abandoned mine. Originally the site of the mine was a traditional hunting ground...

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