{"id":30363,"date":"2025-05-28T04:59:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T04:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.net\/?p=30363"},"modified":"2025-05-28T05:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T05:00:27","slug":"aumas-berhad-wullersdorf-resources-gold-mining-odered-to-cease-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/aumas-berhad-wullersdorf-resources-gold-mining-odered-to-cease-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Aumas Berhad, Wullersdorf Resources Gold Mining Odered To Cease Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">TAWAU : Wullesdort Resources Sdn Bhd and Aumas Berhad, which carry out gold mining work, were ordered to immediately cease operations after the water in their reservoir burst here last Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It is understood that the order was issued by the Department of Minerals and Geosciences Malaysia during a joint inspection and investigation conducted by various government departments and agencies after a video broadcast by Sabah News Today duration 1:23 went viral on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The video shows the ruptured water retention pond believed to contain sodium cyanide chemical residue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to sources who informed Sabah News Today, the ban will remain in effect until the company involved can provide new water storage facilities which is very difficult.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThis is because there is no suitable area for the construction of the dam within the Wullersdorf Resources sub-lease area leased from Southsea Gold Sdn Bhd as the overall concession owner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cA team of inspectors including representatives from the Fire and Rescue Department, State Environment Department, State Health Department and State Forestry Department conducted an inspection here yesterday,\u201d he told Sabah News Today\u2019 here today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to him, this was following an incident where the retaining wall of the pond collapsed and overflowed, causing contaminated water to flow into the Kalumpang River.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Department of Environment is expected to collect water samples today from the area around the gold mine as well as locations affected by the spill, including the Kalumpang River.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAWAU : Wullesdort Resources Sdn Bhd and Aumas Berhad, which carry out gold mining work, were ordered to immediately cease&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30365,"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30363\/revisions\/30365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahnewstoday.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}