Kureng Sabee, of Aceh Jaya district, is recently more attractive for prespector since the issue of gold deposits around the Gunung Ujeun forest land. Villagers have mined gold by hand in the mountainous site. This area is predicted containing abundant and easily mined deposits of nickel, gold, iron ore and potassium.Husaini Syama’un, the head of Aceh Environmental Protection Agency, stated that the gold-mining activities in this area is alarming due to the massive and uncontrolled use of mercury. Around 14 400 liters of mercury waste water run without a proper management into the Krueng Sabee river every. Around 600 kg of mercury/day.What the...
