Philippines: A PRIMER ON LARGE-SCALE & DESTRUCTIVE MINING

While Xstrata-SMI has published its options for mitigation and prevention
of these potential impacts, the fact remains that large scale mining even in
the most advanced countries like Australia, Canada and the United States, is
one of the most destructive and disastrous of human activities. The mining
tragedies in the Philippines for the past two decades will always remind us of
the dangers we are in, once open pit mine is employed and especially to such
a big extent. We should never ever forget the spillage of the long-abandoned
Marcopper Mines in Marinduque which killed the Boac River, the landslides in
Baguio, Benguet and Maco; the cyanide poisoning in Albay, and the many other
disasters that were triggered or caused by the mining industry
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