Dozens of bulldozers and excavators belonging to five multinational mining companies operating in Ghana [Chirano Goldmines (95% owned by Red Back Mining), Satellite Goldfields, Nevsun/AGC, Birim/AGC, Newmont Ghana (part of Newmont)] are poised to tear apart thousands of hectares of forest reserves...if the government gives them approval to haul out what they describe as rich deposits of gold...The environmentalists fear that when the rains come, water laced with deadly cyanide will run off the tailings or waste from the mining activities into these rivers. [also refers to Gold Fields Ghana (part of Gold Fields)]