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Day
Dumps
Gold mining
High angle view
Houses
Human rights
KWCI (GPI)
Mercury (Metal)
Mines
Mining
Outdoors
Plastics
Rubbish
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Toxics (campaign title)
Metalor's Gold Mine in Peru
Pile of rubbish near the mining town of La Rinconada in Peru, where thousands of miners dig for gold under the most adverse conditions. Here people work under slave-like conditions, and trafficking in human beings is commonplace. Soils and water are highly contaminated by mercury, as laboratory analyzes show.
The Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV), Doctors for Environmental Protection (AefU) and Greenpeace took extensive soil, sediment and water samples and had them examined for harmful substances. The results are frightening: Most samples are i.a. contaminated with highly toxic mercury, partly with concentrations that exceed the health-safe WHO limit many times over.
After years of protests, Metalor announced in April 2019 that it would not buy gold from "La Rinconada" and generally sensitive mining. If the Corporate Responsibility initiative were in place, Metalor would have failed to address the serious human rights issues and environmental pollution at its horror mine "La Rinconada" from the start.
In original language:
Metalors Goldmine
De Minen-Stadt «La Rinconada» in Peru, wo tausende Kleinschürfer unter widrigsten Bedingungen nach Gold graben. Die Menschen arbeiten hier unter sklavenähnlichen Bedingungen, Menschenhandel ist an der Tagesordnung. Böden und Gewässer sind hochgradig durch Quecksilber verseucht, wie Laboranalysien zeigen.
Die Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (GfbV), Ärzte für Umweltschutz (AefU) und Greenpeace haben im selben Jahr umfassende Boden-, Sediment- und Gewässerproben genommen und auf Schadstoffe untersuchen lassen. Die Resultate sind erschreckend: Die meisten Proben sind u.a. mit hochgiftigem Quecksilber belastet, teils mit Konzentrationen die den gesundheitlich unbedenklichen WHO-Grenzwert um ein Vielfaches überschreiten.
Unique identifier:
GP0STTRO6
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
07/10/2018
Locations:
La Rinconada, Peru
,
Peru
,
South America
Credit line:
© Jhunior Flores Contreras / Greenpeace
Size:
3264px × 2448px 2MB
Ranking:
★★★★★★ (B)
Containers
Shoot:
Metalor Metalor's Gold Mine in Peru
The mining town of La Rinconada in Peru, where thousands of miners dig for gold under the most adverse conditions. Here people work under slave-like conditions, and trafficking in human beings is commonplace. Soils and water are highly contaminated by mercury, as laboratory analyzes show.
The Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV), Doctors for Environmental Protection (AefU) and Greenpeace took extensive soil, sediment and water samples and had them examined for harmful substances. The results are frightening: Most samples are i.a. contaminated with highly toxic mercury, partly with concentrations that exceed the health-safe WHO limit many times over.
After years of protests, Metalor announced in April 2019 that it would not buy gold from "La Rinconada" and generally sensitive mining. If the Corporate Responsibility initiative were in place, Metalor would have failed to address the serious human rights issues and environmental pollution at its horror mine "La Rinconada" from the start.
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