11.   The proposal, awaiting final approval from state officials, would use a cyanide solution to separate gold from tons of crushed rock.

12.   It said thousands of seemingly promising crushed rock core samples collected by Bre-X had been doctored with gold from elsewhere.

13.   Sodium cyanide is considered the most efficient and economic way to extract gold from crushed rock.

14.   Strathcona said only trace amounts of gold were found in the crushed rock samples it tested and there were no samples with gold values worth mining.

15.   The water was tainted by sodium cyanide used to separate gold from crushed rock.