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21. Protesters back El Salvador for denying gold mining permit: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... silver and gold, but mining has polluted water supplies, and residents say cyanide and arsenic are poisoning their children. The mining projects have led to civil unrest and five deaths in the area. “OceanaGold ...; Created on 17 September 2014
22. A corporate warning to El Salvador: Give up your gold or pay $315 million: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... rock, and can run off into land and water. In El Salvador as around the world, the process of digging up and crushing rock during gold mining releases naturally-occurring arsenic. But here, some of ...; Created on 06 August 2014
23. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); ... covers the dried silt and rocks of their abandoned operation, and the artesian miners now illegally working the tunnels warn of arsenic contamination in parts of the mine. The pollution from the company’s ...; Created on 13 February 2014
24. Buzzwords:Responsible Mining: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... process (typically cyanide used to separate gold from the rock), the toxins released by the mining (for example, arsenic is often released in El Salvador and elsewhere) as well as overall "acid-rock drainage", ...; Created on 22 September 2013
25. The Rights Clash: (Commerce Group); ... the water could be sold to foreign industry when it is needed for local survival. And there’s another issue: cyanide and arsenic are necessary to extract gold from bedrock. Pacific Rim, by its own estimates, ...; Created on 15 July 2013
26. PRELIMINARY REPORT “Gold Mining and the Defense of Water in El Salvador”: (Background and reports ); ... been flooded with hot water from a geothermal aquifer. The geothermal water, as well as surrounding soil and rock has been found to contain toxic arsenic in concentrations exceeding health standards. Community ...; Created on 24 May 2013
27. Experts Will Assign Responsibility in Mining Case: (FTAs & ISDS); ... for Investigation of Investment and Commerce (CEICOM) in the area have determined that the water and soil are contaminated with aluminum, zinc, lead, arsenic and cadmium. “This goes beyond the capacity ...; Created on 24 October 2012
28. Guatemalan Mine Threatens the Lempa River: (Cerro Blanco); ... found an alarming number of potentially dangerous problems with the proposed mine. One of the main conclusions of Robinson’s review was: “The presence of very toxic arsenic in the soil, rock, surface ...; Created on 11 September 2012
29. Mining Ambition Impedes Environmental Justice: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... is a very toxic chemical, to the point where the amount of cyanide equivalent to a grain of rice can kill an adult human being. Also, the heavy metals released could be arsenic, selenium, and lead which ...; Created on 18 July 2012
30. New Study Shows Mining Pollution in Morazán: (2013 North America Tour); ... was process in later years. The waste and left over soil from the Montecristo mine was left in the town of El Dividsadero after the mining process. The study found elevated levels of arsenic, lead, ...; Created on 14 March 2012

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