They also support the Latin America Mining Conflicts Observatory’s campaign to ban cyanide in the entire region, already in effect in Costa Rica and the European Union. “Mega open pit mining is an activity whose enormous scale entails major environmental impacts, such as the destruction large forests, the massive consumption of fresh water and electricity, the seepage of acid and above all the use of large amounts of highly toxic substances.”
The environmentalists, in front of the Acropolis building, said one of the worst uses of cyanide is what’s planned for Barrick’s mine at Pueblo Viejo, Dominican Republic, to process 24,000 tons of mineral daily.
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