Goldcorp mine in Honduras extract profits while poisoning land and population

During the eight years of Goldcorp's ten-year concession, a cyanide mixture (which extracts gold and heavy metals from ore), was sprayed 24 hours a day, in the open, and at heights of about six metres, on extracted ore. Every 12 hours, 250,000 gallons of water were used for the process, to treat about 55 million tons of rock "waste."
The results -- euphemistically called "externalities" -- were predictable. Streams dried up, livestock died (about 40 cows in one instance), crops were contaminated and the population, dependant on sustainable farming, was poisoned and displaced.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/comfront/2014/01/goldcorp-mine-honduras-extract-profits-while-poisoning-land-and-popu