Goldcorp's mine in El Salvador a ‘threat’ to human rights: government

“This first evaluation, when gold and silver extraction hasn’t even started, shows us that when extraction begins, the levels of heavy metals will increase, particularly in winter,” said the study’s author, Cidia Cortes, an environmental biologist with CEICOM. “The eventual impact on the Lempa River is imminent.”...
The company also said that in its own auditable environmental assessment of the project, it would apply the highest national and international mining requirements and standards. Furthermore, Goldcorp was the first company in the world to have one of its mines, Marigold, in Nevada, be certified by the International Cyanide Management Code for the Gold Mining Industry. Such certification is given only after the safe handling and storage of cyanide in the mining process has been verified
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