21.   The company uses cyanide to help extract gold from ore and afterwards, stores the chemical in a man-made pond on its property.

22.   The cyanide was destined for the Australian-owned Tolukuma gold mine, which uses the chemical to extract gold in the mining process.

23.   The deadly poison is used to kill wild animals or to extract gold in mining ventures.

24.   The miners deny this, saying they only use pumps to suck up the muddy water and run it through sluices that help extract gold.

25.   He said an Australian company had completed setting up a plant to extract gold at a cost of two million dollars.

26.   Champion prospectors take around three minutes to extract the gold from the sand.

27.   Environment officials said potassium cyanide is commonly used in the mining industry to extract gold and in the electroplating industry.

28.   Lone Star, which is waiting for authorisation from Hungarian authorities, envisages investing several million dollars in operations to extract the gold.