The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition that two giant storage ponds containing toxic cyanide from the June rock slide at the Eagle mine in Yukon are nearing capacity owing to the inability to treat water tainted by the catastrophe, raising the risk of yet another spill. The Globe's Niall McGee writes that four million tonnes of cyanide-laced ore collapsed at Victoria Gold's gold-processing facility in June, causing massive damage to mine infrastructure and contamination. Victoria Gold was placed into receivership in August with PwC taking over the cleanup and environmental mitigation effort and the Yukon government providing the funding. Prereceivership, Victoria Gold was unable to effectively treat the effluent. In fact, after Victoria Gold discharged water it believed was properly treated, dozens of fish were killed. The receiver has since appointed a new water-treatment company in the hope that it would be able to solve the water-treatment problem, but so far progress has been slow, with Yukon's rains complicating matters. "The ponds are full, they're nearing capacity," said Erin Dowd, the technical lead on the Eagle gold response with Yukon's Energy and Mines Department, told reporters Friday.