... of fresh water due to its release of acid mine drainage, which has serious effects on the environment.
The country is also being sued in an international trade tribunal by Canadian mining company Pacific ...
... where mining operations are located. The community of San Sebastian, where US Corporation Commerce Group has its operations, is currently enduring the long term health impacts of acid drainage leaching ...
... process (typically cyanide used to separate gold from the rock), the toxins released by the mining (for example, arsenic is often released in El Salvador and elsewhere) as well as overall "acid-rock drainage", ...
... Sebastian mine. In 1977, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based mining company called Commerce Group closed its operations there. In the years since, bedrock exposed during mining caused acid drainage, which has ...
... former’s track record in San Sebastián, whose residents have “nothing to show for decades of gold extraction but the famous bright orange waters of the San Sebastián river, a classic sign of acid mine ...
... impacts of acid mine drainage in the rust-colored water of the San Sebastian river. We heard from local residents that instead of generating wealth for communities, large-scale mining leaves behind poverty ...
... times the compulsory standard for water for human consumption of iron. Local environmental organizations attribute this contamination to acid mine drainage leeching from mining waste and it is currently ...
... acceptable limit of cyanide and one thousand times the Salvadoran compulsory standard for water for human consumption of lead, a direct result of acid mine drainage from mining operations that were at ...
... Sebastian mine still holds the attention of the Vice-minister, after having received complaints about the pollution whose main sources is a rust colored acidic discharge that comes from the slope of the ...
... 1999 but sought to return when the price of gold began its current escalation. After a Centre for Investigation of Investment and Commerce study found the local river to be 100,000 times more acidic than ...
... possible risks of acid-generating rock,” which is the main source of pollution in the San Sebastian mining in El Salvador, as well as the time it will require to close the mine. He finishes by pointing ...
... consequences: once the mining excavations expose sulfide to the air and rain, it is converted to sulfuric acid. With each new rain, the acid unleashes new toxic substances down the mountain and into the ...
... mining on our neighbors (Guatemala and Honduras), and we have lived and suffered through the damages subterranean gold mining causes in our very own communities. Water and soil pollution, acid mine drainage, ...
... cyanide and iron, among other substances.
The main source of contamination that was identified is a discharge of acid water that is rust colored following down from the higher ground on the Cosiguina ...
Investigations into pollution in the San Sebastian River (LPG)
Yesterday a delegation of specialists collected samples from the river
Written by Ángela Alfaro
Tuesday, July 3, 2012 00:00
Translated ...
... “if the water is clear, there is no pollution.”
The river accumulates all the acid mine drainage, especially the drainage washed down in the rainy season of metals leaching from the mountain, exactly ...
... or the rock surrounding the ore body.
Sulfides exposed to air and water create acid mine drainage. Exxon could not meet the requirements of the law and withdrew from the controversial Crandon mine project, ...
... de varios movimientos sociales, y ha desarrollado la capacidad de entrenar de manera técnica sobre calidad la de agua y químicos tóxicos,” Morrill me dijo el martes durante una visita a Milwaukee, donde ...
... al pueblo salvadoreño. 2. El pueblo de la zona sigue sufriendo las consecuencias de las actividades de Commerce Group a través del drenaje ácido de la mina abandonada. Según un estudio científico llevado ...
... mining process: acid mine drainage. They also spoke with a former employee of the mine who said that almost all his coworkers from his mining days have died of illness. One of the members of the theater ...