If fully constructed, Mirador would become the first large-scale mining operation in Ecuador’s history. The Mirador mine’s pit will be about a mile across and half a mile deep, and generate 600 million tons of potentially toxic waste to be stored on nearby steep slopes and in tailings impoundments next to the Quimi River.
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