In addition to rapidly lowering the water table, as Erzinger warned, the mining process could pollute the entire local water cycle with mercury, cyanide, arsenic, zinc and aluminum. With the growth of the Salvadoran mining industry, these toxic substances could potentially be spread throughout the entirety of Central America through evaporation and rainfall, thus poisoning people, water supplies, and crops along the way. Erzinger’s study of the topic concluded that the environmental damage of Pacific Rim’s El Dorado project and the 23 other pending mines might affect more than 4 million people
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