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#2163221

5 September 2017

A view of tailings of the Tamboraque Mining in San Mateo de Huanchor, Peru, on August 22, 2017. The Rimac river basin, the main water supplier of the capital of Peru, is threatened by the tailings miners that are located meters from the channel.

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#2163222

5 September 2017

A view of tailings of the Tamboraque Mining in San Mateo de Huanchor, Peru, on August 22, 2017. The Rimac river basin, the main water supplier of the capital of Peru, is threatened by the tailings miners that are located meters from the channel.

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#1548745

12 November 2016

One year after the tragedy that killed 19 people and polluted one of Brazil's most important river basins, thieves has robbed everything they could from the houses hit by the "mud tsunami" in Camargos and Bento Rodrigues districts of Mariana. On Nov. 5th 2015, aprox. 40 billion liters of mining tailings contaminated mud broke from Samarco's (owned by Vale and BHP Blliton) Fundao dam, in the biggest enviromental disaster of Brazil's history. Mariana, Oct. 29th, 2016.

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#1068879

24 February 2016

A gold mining worker carries a load out to Maning village in Camarines Norte, Philippines on 9 February. Locals basically use the motorcycle for transportation to Maning village. But they have to walk from the main road to the village for two hours after the rains due to muddy roads.The town of Paracale in Camarines Norte, is one of the oldest town of small-scale gold mining operation in Philippines. It is estimated that gold was discovered beneath it in 1626, during Spanish ruled, and Spaniards worked the gold-bearing gravel in its rivers and streams. After almost four hundreds years, Palacale has still attracted prospectors, miners and casual labors. Meanwhile, Gold mining has long been a risky business especially for underground mining workers. Small-scale mining workers are always risk of injury and death from accidents. Moreover, they, including many children, suffer lung damage due to breathing dust and particulates, or range of neurological problems due to exposure to mercury, which is used to separate the gold from the rock and the sand. Mercury cause harmful not only to mining workers but also to locals who don't live or work in mining areas. Because mercury-contaminated water flows from mining areas into the river, where children play and fish live in.Three years ago, the government shut underground pits down along the coast near Palacale. Because more than one hundred mining workers died during mining operation in this area for a few years. But since last year, these pits have reopened and started mining operation again. Anonymous workers and residents say some local politicians accepted to open these pits again for the next election or a bribe. It is estimated that ninety percent of gold in Philippines is traded at the black markets or smuggled out of the country.

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#16777

24 October 2013

A protester shouting at the doors of the bank "Banco de Chile" which belongs to the Luksic group. In June 2013, AES Gener signed a contract with a mining company of the Luksic group which gives it control over 40 per cent of the property of the project and all the energy that can be generated over a twenty year period for its mining project Los Pelambres. Around 200 activists protest in Santiago de Chile against the Alto Maipo hydroelectric power project. AES Gener, a Chilean subsidiary of US-based AES Corporation, pretends to install two run-of-the-river hydroelectric plants with a total of 531MW in the Maipo river basin, 50 km southeast of Santiago. To finance the project AES Gener is seeking funds from several banks to fund 60-70 per cent of the project costs including the International Finance Corporation (IFC). According to the activists, the Alto Maipo project endangers Santiago's water supply. Photo: David Von Blohn/NurPhoto

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