1.   In February the river was badly polluted by a cyanide spill from a Romanian gold mine.

2.   Meanwhile, the Romanian Environment Ministry confirmed reports that the Romanian-Australian company running the mine was closed soon after the cyanide spill.

3.   A cyanide spill that killed thousands of fish last week and poisoned Romanians who ate them was a deliberate act, a government official said Monday.

4.   Cleanup of a potentially dangerous cyanide spill in a heavily populated district in this coastal city was completed Thursday.

5.   Frightened by a massive cyanide spill, thousands of Guyanese on Friday refused to drink water from the Essequibo River despite government assurances that it now is safe.

6.   Frightened by a massive cyanide spill, thousands of Guyanese refused to drink water from the Essequibo River despite government assurances that it now is safe.

7.   He noted that some of money is earmarked for victims of the cyanide spill.

8.   Health officials on Wednesday confiscated and burned hundreds of contaminated fish plucked by hungry Romanians from a river polluted by a cyanide spill.

9.   In Budapest, Hungarian government commissioner Janos Goenczy said the heavy metal contamination had entered the Tisza River east of the cyanide spill.

10.   Mara said the dye was soluble in water and may have been placed there as a stunt to coincide with a U.N. investigation into the earlier cyanide spill.