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Yellow Jacket Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Waaay south
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Liked: 2046 times | Peru has a miserable record when it comes to controls on illegal mines. These guys dump TONS of mercury waste in to local watersheds every month. It has to stop.
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Liked: 691 times | @ swissaustrian, thanks for publishing this. I had read only sketchy details of these troubles before. @ ancona, YES, the illegal mining going on not only dumps mercury and other crap into their environment, but apparently the illegal gold mining is EVEN BIGGER than the coca (precursor to you know what) growing an initial processing industry. From a recent Mineweb article. *** I used to import Peruvian green coffee (unroasted coffee beans) before getting into bearings a bunch of years ago (late 1980s). I went to visit the cooperative in Tingo Maria, at that time Sendero Luminoso was running wild over the place down there. Peru is POOR, I could very easily understand how it was impossible to stop the drug trade in those mountains, when the USA could not stop marijuana production 50 miles from SF... Way up there in the Andes it is really hard for the Peruvian government to really control things. Illegal mining = mercury being dumped into the environment. Illegal drug manufacturing = sulfuric acid and gasoline. Peru is a wonderful country, but they DO have many problems, some of these are not pretty... |
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