Orica Company

Company Description

In 1988, Orica (under the ownership of Mining Services International - MSI) undertook to build a liquid sodium cyanide plant in Winnemucca, Nevada, in the heart of gold mining country. Until this time, producers of sodium cyanide made a liquid product nearer to the raw materials, which was usually thousands of miles from where the mines Orica Companyre. To avoid substantial transportation costs, they dried the product to a solid form, packaged it in drums or wooden boxes, and then shipped the cyanide long distances to gold mines, who then dissolved the product back into a useable liquid form. Then, the packaging had to be disposed of properly.