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I will not debate your ug's vs mg's. I agree that ppm's are the right measure to use that everyone understands. So, as you said, the company said in the 2008 annual report that Kvanefjeld has Villiaumite at 2.01% in the tenement. That translates to an NaF level of 20,100 ppm. The deposit has other references that talk Villiaumite at higher levels as well, As high as 5% has been mentioned in Danish publications.
You seem to want to dismiss the 20,100 ppm NaF levels as no big deal. I disagree vigorously. You also say that it can be easily dealt with. The problem at Kvanefjeld is that it has not been dealt with by GGG, and the company not even planned to deal with in any EIA I have seen. Of course All theEIA's have all failed to be approved, maybe because they haven't dealt with these issues In the 2018 EIA and the current 2019 EIA there is nothing said about specifically dealing with the Fluorine mediation problem either. And,I believe the Kvanefjeld NaF levels of 20,100 ppm is very different than toothpaste. NaF toxisity is about the same as Arsenic and not surprisingly, it is used commercially as Rat Poison. And by the way, if eat a whole tube of toothpaste with fluorine in it at 1500ppm, it will make you quite sick. An famous example of fluoride caused problems in the water happened in Hooper bay Alaska. The Flouride pump servicing the town water, in Hooper Alaska, was running too fast and the level of flourine rose to about 100ppm., as the result of this level, one man died and 260 residents got very sick. and again, that happened at only 100ppm.
Again, You are wrong to minimize the danger of NaF in Kvanefjeld. it needs to be dealt with with a specific remediation plan. 1500ppm Naf, in toothpaste, where it is ingested and spit out in seconds, is very different and much more dangerous at the 20,100 levels at Kvanefjeld being absorbed in the water table or possible being turned into dust and being released into the air. I have looked through them both 2018 and 2019 EIAs looking to see if they had plans to deal with the NaF mediation and containment. I found nothing in either one, which means the company hasn't come up with the necessary plan to deal with this dangerous problem. Remember, at 20,100 it isn't like toothpaste, it is like RAT POISON. Do we want to put RAT POISON in the water or the air? GGG must deal with it.
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