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More than a day after a landslide at a gold mine in eastern Turkey, rescue teams have yet to find any of the nine buried people. Teams used metal detectors to search for people through 10 million cubic metres of sludge, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Wednesday at the site in the Erzincan province. The people are believed to be buried in a car, truck and a container, Yerlikaya added. The exact cause of Tuesday’s landslide at the Çöpler mine in Erzincan’s İliç district remains unclear. The operating firm Anagold Madencilik and government officials rejected environmentalist concerns that…