The key industry in El Salvador is gold mining and the big corporations are looking to do open-pit cyanide leach gold mining. “It's a process that mixes water, gold, and cyanide together to separate the gold from the soil,” Morrill says. “Obviously, that is really environmentally destructive and it has caused a lot of problems in Honduras and Guatemala and Mexico, so the Salvadoran communities where gold mining was being proposed have done a lot of research and work to find out the dangerous effects of that.”
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