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NEWMONT's ARSENIC
POISONS
BOLIVIA
JUST AS IT HAS
INDONESIA, ROMANIA, GHANA, MONTANA, NEVADA
Behind Every Great Fortune
Is A Great Crime
The
Environmental Cost of Gold Mining | Mother Jones
http://cherlyncreative2biology.blogspot.com/2010_11_01_archive.html
http://www.sos-arsenic.net/english/contamin/index.html
http://test.earthworksaction.org/voices/detail/buyat_bay_and_ratatatok
Mining
companies now widely use a process called "heap-leaching". Gold is
chemically extracted from great
huge piles of low-grade ore using a sodium cyanide. Mountains are
"dismembered" rather than mined. Massive amounts of cyanide must be
used. One ounce of gold can come from 25 tons of mined "ore" (dirt and
boulders). The environmental damage caused by gold mining is terrible. The cyanide
remants in solution are placed in ponds and later recycled. The
cyanide inevitablly leaks out and gets into the streams and water table. It's more
than cyanide people worry about. "There's not a mine company out there that's going
to tell you how much mercury they process," said Earl Brooks, a USGS mercury
commodities specialist. "It's an environmental pariah." There
are other methods of to extracting gold from low-grade ore, but the gold-mining industry
keeps using this technique because cyanide is cheap and effective. Montana banned
it, for example,
in 1998. But the Republican legislature is trying to make it legal
again. See Frontline
Report
A single ring, made with 1/3 ounce 18 K gold requires 20 tons of waste and 13 pounds of
arsenic
and mercury. NEM crushes and then must dispose of a billion tons of rock a year.
Accidents and leakage
are ineviable. "n 2005, Route 766 in Nevada was partially buried by an
avalanche involving 10 million tons of waste
from a Newmont mine. In Romania, more than 100,000 tons of toxic waste spilled from the
Aurul gold mine in 2000, contaminating the drinking water of 2.5 million people and
killing at least 1200 tons of fish. In 2002, the Bush
administration changed regulations to allow mine and other industrial waste to be dumped
in waterways."
Mother
Jones.
Arsenic
poisoning" is a medical condition caused by increased levels of the element arsenic in the body.
Arsenic interferes with cellular longevity by allosteric inhibition of an essential metabolic enzyme. Symptoms
of arsenic poisoning include headache, confusion, convulsion,
diarrhea, vomiting, and in severe cases coma and death.
Routes of exposure include contaminated water, air, and food. Occupational exposure
to arsenic may occur with copper or lead smelting and wood treatment and among workers
involved in the production or application of pesticides. Symptoms of arsenic
poisoning begin with headaches, confusion, severe diarrhea, and drowsiness. As the
poisoning develops, convulsions and changes in fingernail pigmentation called leukonychia may
occur. When the poisoning becomes acute, symptoms may include diarrhea, vomiting, blood in
the urine, cramping muscles, hair loss, stomach pain, and more convulsions. The organs of
the body that are usually affected by arsenic poisoning are the lungs, skin, kidneys, and
liver. The final result of arsenic poisoning is coma to death.[citation needed]
Arsenic is related to heart disease[1]
(hypertension related cardiovascular), cancer,[2]
stroke[3]
(cerebrovascular diseases), chronic lower respiratory diseases,[4]
and diabetes.[5][6]
12-4-2011
NEM gets PERU GOV'T TO BAN
PROTESTS AGAINST THEIR POISONING
AP - "Peru's President Ollanta Humala declared a 60-day state of emergency Sunday in a
northern region torn
by more than a week of protests against a highlands gold mine, the country's biggest investment, by
peasants who fear for their water supply. The emergency restricts civil liberties such as
the right to assembly and allows arrests without warrants in four provinces of Cajamarca state that have been
paralyzed for 11 days by increasingly violent protests against the $4.8-billion Conga gold and
copper mining project. U.S.-based Newmont Mining Corp. is the project's majority owner.
"Dozens have been injured in clashes between
police and protesters, some of whom have vandalized Conga property.Humala said in a brief
televised address Sunday night that protest leaders had shown no interest "in
reaching minimal agreements to permit a return of social peace" after a day of talks
in Cajamarca with Cabinet chief
Salmon Lerner and three other ministers.
"Local elected officials in Cajamarca, including the state's governor, have led
protests against Conga, an extension of the nearby Yanacocha mine, for more than a month.
They say they fear it will taint and diminish water supplies affecting thousands and have
demanded a new study of the environmental impact of the mine, which was scheduled to begin
production in 2015.
"Government officials have expressed no intention of redoing Conga's environmental
impact study, which was approved by the Ministry of Mining in October 2010. Those plans
call for displacing four lakes more than two miles high and replacing them with
reservoirs. Local residents say they fear that could affect an important acquifer on which
thousands depend.
"Humala told Cajamarca during campaign swings before his June election that clean
water was more important for him than gold. Many local inhabitants said they now feel
betrayed by the president. Peru's economy depends heavily on mining, which accounts for 61
percent of its export income."
http://news.yahoo.com/peru-declares-state-emergency-032528785.html
YAHOO COMMENTS:
"Yep, mining destroys water tables and pollutes everything around them.
They have every right to protest...
You can live without Gold and Gas, but you cannot live without
water."
"The US ambassador praised the Peruvian government for ignoring the will
of the people, what democracy
is this that we are pretending to spread?"
"Cyanide is used in the gold business to separate gold from other
minerals. It doesn't just ''go away'' and is one of the most toxic poisons known to man. I
would be very concerned."
"The mine uses a cyanide leach process that leaves a lake of poison. These
lakes have drained into river systems before with disastrous results ".
"Parts of Reno must have their water piped in, due to cyanide used in
mining the gold mines".
"looks like everyone around the world has had enuff of the billionaires
#$%$"
".it would appear that the peruvian government is on the mining company
payroll!!
"Different country, same story as in USA: Politicians protecting big
business at the expense of Joe average."
"Democracy is wonderful as long as it doesn't stand in the way of
corporate profit."
"The people are protesting because there is a precedent by this company
in Yanacocha, where they polluted the water supply so badly what used to be acres of
arable land are now desert after 10 years."
"Ollanta eres un vendío. Maldita tu casa en la raza."
"This is GREAT. I just read a page of posts and EVERY one of
them was intelligent to genial (as they say in Spanish for genius). You guys rock!!! It's
amazing how different it can be from one article to the next. Still this page of comments
gives me faith in humanity that we can overcome anything,"
 George III died of arsenic poisoning. |
 Napoleon died of arsenic poisoning. |
 Peru |
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 Kyrgyzstan |
 Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria |
2/14/2008
THE ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS OF GOLD MINING ARE VERY HIGH. http://tigersoftware.com/TigerBlogs/10-18-2010a/Index.html
GOLD HAS BEEN A MUCH BETTER INVESTMENT
THAN NEWMONT
Why? ... There's
always the threat
of nationalization, as in Uzbekhistan. Here
insiders at NEM would
have a huge advantage, because they would know of this first.
Most important,
production costs at NEM are rising steeply, on a percentage basis,
faster than the price
of gold. In
all of 2010, it cost NEM $260 to produce an
ounce of
gold
that they marketed for $1150/ounce. In
the last quarter of 2011, it cost more than $500
which
they sold for $1366/ounce. In addition, they warned that their Batu
Hijau Indonesian
mine
would bring them less revenue, due to the Indonesian government's decision to
penalize them for past
pattern of massive pollution.
Bribing public officials is expensive, too. So, is paying for security when
thousands of locals protest
your presence. Spying on environmentalists is not
cheap. Factor in work
stoppages and the need for regular PR campaigns. Not
to mention high executive pay
and bonuses.
http://www.tigersoftware.com/TigerBlogs/02142008/index.html
Newmont's Gold
Mining Brings Protests All over the World:
Widespread
Environmental Degradation and Health Hazards
Someone buying NEM at 60 in 1996, would see his stock up
only 10% 15 years later!
