Tailings from small-scale mine sites are slowly polluting rivers of this province with toxic effluents even as foreigners are now actively involved in transporting ore from the areas to Poro Point, La Union for shipment to China.
This was bared in a recent forum of the Cordillera Studies Center where use of cyanide and mercury by small scale miners in Fidelisan, Sagada in a gold processing plant was reported by affected folks in downstream Tetep-an and Tanulong barangays.
Traces of mercury have also been noted from water coming from Amlosong River from the Fidelisan mines in Sagada and Balitian River from the direction of the Mainit mines in Bontoc flowing to the Chico River, said Kalinga Environment officer Dominic Sugguiyao during a meeting with Kalinga and Mountain Province officials to address Chico River pollution.
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