Small-scale mining operations tagged behind Vizcaya river contamination

Ancheta said that “it is very unlikely that OcenaGold’s Didipio Gold-Copper Project caused the contamination of the river with mercury, which is a banned substance in its operation.”
“It is definitely not the large-scale mining; it is the small-scale miners who are using mercury in their operation that is causing the contamination and pollution of the river,” Ancheta said.
Indiscriminately drained into the rivers, mercury is allegedly used by small-scale miners to extract gold, according to the MGB.
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