Thursday Night Talk 23rd September 2004

international | miscellaneous | event notice Friday September 17, 2004 14:11 by LASC info at lasc dot ie 6760435

23 SEPTEMBER 2004: THE HEALTH, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF GOLD MINING ON THE COMMUNITY OF CAJAMARCA IN NORHTERN PERU

The talk will take place 7:30 pm at LASC. 5, Merrion Row, Dublin 2

The talk will focus on the health/social and environmental consequences of gold mining on the community of Cajamarca in Norhtern Peru. Yanacocha in Cajamarca is the largest gold mine in Latin America and the second largest in the world and in 2002 produced 2.29 million ounces of gold.

However the technologies and methods used such as the lixivation(washing) with cyanide of whole hillsides brings into stark releif the contrast in health and environmental standards between the 1st and 3rd worlds. The health and environmental standards as applied by Newmont Corporation threatens to leave a human catastrophe in its wake in Cajamarca and surrounding region.

It is exactly a year since Lasc and Trocaire jointly hosted a special screening of the award winning documentary CHOROPAMPA THE PRICE OF GOLD (Yanacocha mine) and now perhaps is the time for some action to be taken on this issue.


http://www.nodirtygold.org
http://www.grufides.org
http://www.ecovida.org