Critics see waste, not jobs
Payat Sampal, of the anti-mining group Earthworks, says the new mines employ relatively few people and “generate large amounts of waste proportionate to metal created,” said Sampal. “The scale of these mines and the fact they’re all above ground is unprecedented” in the region.
Foreign mining companies have been moving into Latin America since the 1990s and the recent surge in gold prices to over $430 an ounce has sharpened their appetite.
But the Latin American colonies that flooded Europe with silver and gold from 1520 to 1820 dug tunnels that didn’t alter the landscape as much as strip mines.
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“The open-pit mines damage nature and they pollute the groundwater,” said Esteban Toc, mayor of Solola where the violence erupted in January. “Most of the people here are Mayas, who view nature as Mother Earth, and they don’t want to destroy it.”
Glamis still plans to start the Marlin mine by 2005, but Toc said the Guatemalan government has promised to grant no more mining concessions.
Payat Sampal, of the anti-mining group Earthworks, says the new mines employ relatively few people and “generate large amounts of waste proportionate to metal created,” said Sampal. “The scale of these mines and the fact they’re all above ground is unprecedented” in the region.
Foreign mining companies have been moving into Latin America since the 1990s and the recent surge in gold prices to over $430 an ounce has sharpened their appetite.
But the Latin American colonies that flooded Europe with silver and gold from 1520 to 1820 dug tunnels that didn’t alter the landscape as much as strip mines.
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“The open-pit mines damage nature and they pollute the groundwater,” said Esteban Toc, mayor of Solola where the violence erupted in January. “Most of the people here are Mayas, who view nature as Mother Earth, and they don’t want to destroy it.”
Glamis still plans to start the Marlin mine by 2005, but Toc said the Guatemalan government has promised to grant no more mining concessions.
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