The town itself suffers from its own impact of what the mine is doing to the mountain as well. They are throwing a lot of the waste rock and ore out of the mine down the mountain, and also use cyanide to treat the gold. So there is an environmental impact today from just the small-scale mining. So if you were to imagine this becoming the large-scale mining operation you could see the negative impact this would have on the environment.
http://times.org/2014/04/29/exporting-destruction-corporate-gold-mining-threatens-mountaintop-small-mining-town/
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