Preview of the film “Gold and Arsenic Mine”

The story of a team of scientists on a mission to clean up the most polluted site in France.

After a century of mining in what were once the largest gold and arsenic mines in Europe and the world, environmental damage and human suffering have been documented in Salsigne, Aude. There seemed to be no hope . Yet researchers have made incredible discoveries in ecological chemistry that are restoring hope to local residents. The dawn of a new era.

In the presence of the filmmakers and Claude GRISON, along with the ChimEco / University of Montpellier / CNRS team.