The group claims that the mine has used up more than their fair share of water, depleting aquifers that the agricultural communities in the area use for their terraced crops.
Backed in part by the Free Academy in Rome (LAR), the Movement on the Road ’96 also claims that the toxic byproduct of the mining process, including cyanide and mercury used to treat the ore, has caused disease, killed livestock and exacerbated desertification.
“…even small plots at the foot of the mountain seem doomed to due to the shortage of water and poisons from the mine,” according to LAR.
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