If you're like most people, you know what I want to invest, how you doing, without further damage good.That 's one reason that there are many questions about the use of cyanide in gold processing and silver minerals. Much of the money in the world today is produced through the use of cyanide, or heap leach or mills.The question is, is it safe? While the issue could be considered ambiguous, I will answer 'yes', then explain. To misquote Bill Clinton, defines insurance. It is a safe car? Why are 10s of thousands of deaths in the United States each year? Safe Hospitals? Why doctors and the hospital caused 100,000 deaths per year? Cars and hospitals are things that "need" and are ready for the security of a "few" in the head to have them. Gold falls into that category, so we have almost zero tolerance. In fact, there are some people who do not want gold mining at all, say it is worth the cost.Cyanide gold production was used in the 1890s in place of mercury (which many safety record is worse.) Actually, now used in the gold boom of the 1980s, when gold prices soared 10 times what it was before.Workers knew almost nothing about the effects of cyanide (yes, the is the same material used by spies to commit suicide if captured) and without taking precautions. Miners permitted waste containing cyanide spill into waterways and these problems attention.Over great pressure in recent decades, but the safety of cyanide has become a science and an institution. Most of the major gold producers belonging to an international standards organization for the treatment is even used to cyanide.Cyanide sets cosmeticsBy way, many industries use cyanide and all have to be more sensitive to the use of safety recent decades. More than a quarter and a million tons of cyanide each year, with about 90 percent of the base that is used for industrial and consumer products, including plastics, pharmaceutical and even cosmetics. Just over 10 percent is used in mining.Fortunately for us, cyanide, carbon and nitrogen, in fact, along with sodium, calcium or potassium, breaks down quickly after exposure to alkaline conditions are not in other words, it is useful to keep for mining must be carefully controlled.Most mining companies in the "third world" American companies, much of U.S. or standards for environmental and safety standards and must report to shareholders generally much more concern about these issues to the general public.So, cyanide is a reason not to invest in gold? No, unless the investor requests a perfect world. Then you have the opportunity to invest in much at all.