Marcopper Mine

Barrick's Dirty Secrets: Communities Protest Gold Mining Impacts Around the World

Mercredi, mai 2, 2007

On May 2nd, 2007, as part of an "International Day of Action" against Barrick, protests took place in six different countries as well as in Toronto, Canada, where Barrick is based.

On the same day, Canada's second largest gold mining company, GoldCorp, was protested at their annual meeting in Vancouver.

Étiquettes: Argentina, Congo - Democratic Republic, Marcopper Mine, Porgera Mine - Barrick, Chile, Nevada, Tanzania, Ontario, Barrick Gold

Halifax Initiative Publishes Canadian Mining Map

Mercredi, février 21, 2007

The Canadian mining map was produced by the Halifax Initiative during the National Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility and the Canadian Extractive Industry in Developing Countries. The Roundtables, which took place between June and November of 2006, fulfilled one of the recommendations made in the groundbreaking report, Mining in Developing Countries and Corporate Social Responsibility, tabled by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade (SCFAIT) in June 2005.

Summary of Findings from Environmental Studies of Calancan Bay related to Surface Disposal Dumping of Mine Tailings into the Bay from the Tapian Pit of the Marcopper Mine

Vendredi, février 3, 2006

Catherine Coumans, Ph.D.

The geochemistry of the Tapian ore body is such that acid drainage and metal leaching from exposed tailings, such as those in the causeway, must be expected. The sulphide mineral nature of the Tapian ore body, which is linked to acid drainage and metal leaching is well documented.

"The principal sulphide copper mineral is chalcopyrite. (...) Pyrite [iron sulphide] is intimately associated with the chalcopyrite..."

(The Philippine Mining Journal: October 1969).

Étiquettes: Marcopper Mine, Barrick Gold, Submarine/Subaqueous Tailings Disposal, Placer Dome

Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Operating Internationally: background documents

Jeudi, octobre 20, 2005

On October 20, 2005, MiningWatch Canada held a round table on "Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Operating Internationally" with industry, government, and civil society representatives, including invited guests from Latin America, Africa and Asia to examine options for regulatory and/or legislative change and debate the opportunities and difficulties of moving these options forward within the current Canadian political context.

Étiquettes: Canatuan Project - TVI Pacific, Africa, Ghana, Marcopper Mine, Chile, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Aur Resources, Barrick Gold, Peru, Golden Star, Placer Dome, Teck, TVI Pacific

Philippine Province Sues Canadian Mining Giant Placer Dome

Mardi, octobre 4, 2005

(Ottawa) The government of the Philippine Province of Marinduque files suit today for over a hundred million dollars against Canadian mining giant Placer Dome Inc. (PDG). The suit, being filed in Nevada, U.S.A., is spearheaded by a team of attorneys based in Texas. The provincial government of Marinduque holds Placer ...

Étiquettes: Marcopper Mine, Barrick Gold, Placer Dome

Philippine Province Files Suit Against Placer Dome – Background

Mardi, octobre 4, 2005

Catherine Coumans, Ph.D.

Placer Dome in Marinduque

The Province of Marinduque is a small heart-shaped island near the middle of the Philippine archipelago. Most of its 200,000 citizens are fishers and farmers and many rely on what they can harvest from rivers, the sea and their land for their daily food.

Étiquettes: Marcopper Mine, Barrick Gold, Placer Dome

Placer Dome Case Study: Marcopper Mine (Marinduque, Philippines)

Samedi, septembre 10, 2005

Part of a series of case studies on Placer Dome mines.

Étiquettes: Marcopper Mine, Barrick Gold, Placer Dome

From Paradise to Toxic Wasteland: Oxfam Report Exposes a Canadian Mining Company’s Lack of Corporate Accountability in Philippine Island Mining Disaster

Mercredi, août 24, 2005

(Ottawa) “Our report tells how Placer Dome Inc. of Vancouver, built a million dollar mining operation on the tiny Philippine island of Marinduque and then abandoned it, leaving behind a toxic legacy that threatens lives today. We want Placer to take responsibility, clean up its waste and pay up what it owes,” says Oxfam’s Mining Ombudsman, Ingrid Macdonald.

Étiquettes: Marcopper Mine, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Philippines, Barrick Gold, Placer Dome

Placer Dome at Centre of Growing Controversy in the Philippines over Submarine Tailings Disposal (STD)

Vendredi, août 12, 2005

Four years after a massive spill at Placer Dome's Marcopper mine put some 4 million tons of tailings into the 26-kilometre long Boac river on the island of Marinduque in the Philippines Placer Dome remains uncertain about when the cleanup will be completed and about what the final costs will be. The reason Placer Dome faces ever rising expenses and cannot finalize the cleanup of the Boac River is because the company refuses to respond to persistent opposition in the Philippines to the company's plan to place the spilled tailings in the sea.

Étiquettes: Marcopper Mine, Barrick Gold, Submarine/Subaqueous Tailings Disposal, Placer Dome

Shareholders Demand Placer Dome Disclose Environmental Risk

Vendredi, août 12, 2005

For Immediate Release

Ottawa, February 17, 2000 — Placer Dome Inc. (PDI) has been presented with a shareholder proposal by Working Enterprises Ltd. (owned by seven major BC unions). WE Ltd. is asking PDI to provide independent public assessments of environmental risk at each of its operations and to disclose detailed information to shareholders about insurers and levels of insurance that the company has in place to protect shareholders from financial liability. MiningWatch Canada welcomes this proposal.

Étiquettes: Marcopper Mine, Barrick Gold, Placer Dome