Study of Cyanide Contamination of Market Garden and Agricultural Products Grown Around the Samira Gold Mine (Niger)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The term cyanide refers to all the compounds producing the ─C≡N group. It comes from both anthropogenic and natural origins. Its presence in the environment is largely related to gold mining. Cyanide is very scary because of its toxicity causing very deadly environmental consequences. The objective of this work is to study the fate of cyanide and assess its contamination on the environment in the vicinity of a potential source of pollution such as a gold mine. In this study, soils and foods samples from the Samira gold mine and its surroundings in southwestern Niger were collected, analysed and compared with equivalent control samples grown in areas free of any industrial cyanide source. Total cyanide contents in the soils of the Samira site and its surroundings are 2 to 104 times higher than the Canadian standard (0.90 µg g<sup>-1</sup> CN<sup>-</sup>) for agricultural soils, while the control soils are almost free of cyanide. These results show a migration of cyanide from the mine tailings to the surrounding area and these soils are unsuitable for any crop. The produced foods on these polluted soils have total cyanide contents 2 to 5 times higher than their controls. These contaminated matrices reveal negative impacts of the Samira mine's gold activities on its immediate environment. Ingestion of these foods would lead to serious health consequences for local populations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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