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Eldorado files new technical report for Skouries

Canada's Eldorado Gold Corp filed a new technical report for its contentious Skouries gold mine project in Greece on Thursday, which said it "significantly" reduces the development's environmental footprint.

The Skouries report updates a 2011 plan with industry-best practices for wastewater management and tailings, the report said.

Ministry plans to permit discharge of mining waste into sea

The Turkish Environment Ministry is preparing to allow the deposit of mining waste into the sea if storing it on land is not appropriate, in another move that infuriates critics of the government’s development policies.

According to the Mining Wastes Regulation’s draft, pouring mining waste into the sea will be permitted on the condition of “detailed monitoring.”