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The boss of a mining company, which runs a gold mine where nine miners are missing after a massive landslide, has been detained by authorities in Turkey.<\/p>\n

Cengiz Demirci, Turkey<\/strong> director and senior vice-president of operations at the Denver-based SSR Mining, was detained on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of rescue workers are searching for those trapped under rubble after Tuesday’s disaster<\/strong> at Anagold Madencilik’s Copler mine in the town of Ilic, in the mountainous Erzincan province in northeast Turkey.<\/p>\n

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SSR Mining is the parent company of Anagold, which has operated the mine since 2009, where more than 650 people work.<\/p>\n

The workers have been missing for six days after the huge landslide which, according to Turkey’s interior minister, Ali Yerlikaya, involved a mound of soil extracted from the mine.<\/p>\n

Footage showed a huge mass of earth rushing down a gully, overrunning everything in its path.<\/p>\n

Experts have warned the site is a potential environmental hazard, because the soil was laced with dangerous substances, including cyanide, used in gold extraction.<\/p>\n

They have said it may affect the nearby Euphrates River, which stretches across Turkey, Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n

Turkey’s environment ministry closed down a stream leading to the river to prevent water pollution.<\/p>\n

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Six Copler mine employees – out of eight detained earlier this week – have been formally arrested.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Turkey’s environment ministry said it was cancelling Anagold’s environmental permit and licence.<\/p>\n

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In 2020, the same mine was shut down following a cyanide leak into the Euphrates, roughly two miles away.<\/p>\n

It reopened two years later after the company was fined and a clean-up operation was completed.<\/p>\n

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Shares in SSR Mining plunged more than 50% after Tuesday’s catastrophe.<\/p>\n

In 2022, an explosion at the Amasra coal mine on Turkey’s Black Sea coast killed 41 workers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The country’s worst mining disaster took place in 2014 at a coal mine in the municipality of Soma, in western Turkey, where 301 people were killed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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