Early this year, Greenstone was forced to compensate a number of farmers after its waste dump spilled onto several hectares of rice lands. The company has been dewatering the open pit mine it inherited from the former Surigao Consolidated Mining (Suricon) for years, dumping the wastes on an elevated area near farmlands and houses.
http://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2011/11/09/residents-fear-environmental-havoc-as-mining-firm-in-surigao-begins-full-operation/
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