singular_me
27th May 2016, 11:43 AM
poisoning earth for the sake of "honest money speculation"?
sure the article is about illegal mining but legal mines so to speak have a problem too, their waste is seemingly under control but they are unable to dump it anywhere on the planet, so legal mining waste accumulates and so do the risks.
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State of emergency in Peru over mercury poisoning from illegal gold mining
27 May 2016 GMT
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Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has declared a 60-day state of emergency in a large remote area of the Amazon jungle as levels of mercury from illegal gold mining have reached record high levels.
According to country's environment minister, as many as 50,000 people or 41% of the population of the gold-rich Madre de Dios region, bordering Brazil, has been exposed to mercury contamination.
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The lethal element is not only in people, but it has also polluted rivers and fish, state-run news agency Andina reports (in Spanish).
The government plans to send hospital ships and loads of untainted fish to the area, where illegal miners use mercury to separate the gold from rock and then dump the chemical into water streams.
They often handle the neurotoxin with their bare hands and inhale its fumes when it is burned off..........
The story, unfortunately, is nothing new. For years, illegal miners have been eating away the Peru’s rainforest, while the government tries to tighten the screws on illegal mining. However, the battle against illicit miners is far from over.
Until recently, no one really knew the full extent of the damage, but a research team from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC, and Peru’s Ministry of the Environment released in 2013 the first set of satellite images mapping the destruction.
The study showed the illicit activity had already destroyed almost 20,000 hectares of the Amazon rainforest.
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http://www.mining.com/state-of-emergency-in-peru-over-mercury-poisoning-from-illegal-gold-mining/
sure the article is about illegal mining but legal mines so to speak have a problem too, their waste is seemingly under control but they are unable to dump it anywhere on the planet, so legal mining waste accumulates and so do the risks.
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State of emergency in Peru over mercury poisoning from illegal gold mining
27 May 2016 GMT
http://www.mining.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/state-of-emergency-in-peru-over-mercury-poisoning-from-illegal-gold-mining.jpg
Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has declared a 60-day state of emergency in a large remote area of the Amazon jungle as levels of mercury from illegal gold mining have reached record high levels.
According to country's environment minister, as many as 50,000 people or 41% of the population of the gold-rich Madre de Dios region, bordering Brazil, has been exposed to mercury contamination.
http://www.mining.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/peru-illegal-mining-children.jpg
The lethal element is not only in people, but it has also polluted rivers and fish, state-run news agency Andina reports (in Spanish).
The government plans to send hospital ships and loads of untainted fish to the area, where illegal miners use mercury to separate the gold from rock and then dump the chemical into water streams.
They often handle the neurotoxin with their bare hands and inhale its fumes when it is burned off..........
The story, unfortunately, is nothing new. For years, illegal miners have been eating away the Peru’s rainforest, while the government tries to tighten the screws on illegal mining. However, the battle against illicit miners is far from over.
Until recently, no one really knew the full extent of the damage, but a research team from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC, and Peru’s Ministry of the Environment released in 2013 the first set of satellite images mapping the destruction.
The study showed the illicit activity had already destroyed almost 20,000 hectares of the Amazon rainforest.
http://www.mining.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/peru-illegal-gold-mining-devastation.jpg
MORE
http://www.mining.com/state-of-emergency-in-peru-over-mercury-poisoning-from-illegal-gold-mining/