Placer Dome

Troubled Waters: How Mine Waste Dumping is Poisoning Our Oceans, Rivers and Lakes
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Each year, mining companies dump more than 180 million tonnes of hazardous mine waste into rivers, lakes, and oceans worldwide, threatening vital bodies of water with toxic heavy metals and other chemicals poisonous to humans and wildlife, according to report released today by two leading mining reform groups.

Canada, Metal Mining Effluent Regulations, Water, British Columbia, Ok Tedi Mine - BHP-Billiton/Inmet, Manitoba, Porgera Mine - Barrick, Indonesia, Newfoundland & Labrador, Waste Rock and Tailings, Northwest Territories, Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Papua New Guinea, Ontario, Québec, Saskatchewan, Environment, Barrick Gold, BHP-Billiton, Cliffs, Submarine/Subaqueous Tailings Disposal, Water and fisheries, Goldcorp, Iron Ore Company of Canada, Labrador Iron Mines, Newmont, Northern Dynasty, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto Alcan, Rio Tinto, Taseko, Teck, Vale (incl. Inco), Xstrata (Falconbridge/Noranda)
Halifax Initiative Publishes Canadian Mining Map
Wednesday, February 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.

Canatuan Project - TVI Pacific, Congo - Democratic Republic, Goro and Prony, INCO in Sulawesi, Kashipur Bauxite Project, Udon Thani - Asia Pacific Resources, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Burma, Marcopper Mine, Sulawesi, Chile, Corporate Accountability, Kyrgyz Republic, Colombia, Indonesia, Nevada, Romania, Anvil, New Caledonia, Spain, Tanzania, Corporate Social Responsibility, Philippines, Guatemala, Thailand, Guyana, Mexico, Barrick Gold, Peru, Suriname, Cambior, Cameco, Dundee Precious Metals, Gabriel Resources, Glamis Gold, Goldcorp, Golden Star, IAMGOLD, Ivanhoe, Metallica Resources, New Gold, Orvana, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto Alcan, TVI Pacific
Placer Dome Admits to Killings at Porgera Mine in Papua New Guinea
Saturday, April 8, 2006
Canadian gold mining company Placer Dome, recently acquired by Barrick Gold, has confirmed reports coming out of the remote Papua New Guinea highlands that security guards at its Porgera gold mine have been shooting at, and killing, villagers. Placer Dome is owns a 75% interest in, and operates, the ...
Porgera Mine - Barrick, Barrick Gold, Newsletter 21: Winter 2005-2006, Placer Dome
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
Friday, February 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).

Marcopper Mine, Barrick Gold, Submarine/Subaqueous Tailings Disposal, Placer Dome
Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Operating Internationally: background documents
Thursday, October 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.

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
Tuesday, October 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 ...
Marcopper Mine, Barrick Gold, Placer Dome
Philippine Province Files Suit Against Placer Dome – Background
Tuesday, October 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.

Marcopper Mine, Barrick Gold, Placer Dome
Save Indonesia's Protected Forest Areas from Mining
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Deforestation in Indonesia has reached 2.4 million hectares (1.2%) per year or approximately 10 acres of rainforest a minute. Mining multinational companies and foreign governments are lobbying the Indonesian government to open up protected forest areas, national parks and other protected areas for mining while local communities and environmental justice groups are ...
Sulawesi, Indonesia, Barrick Gold, BHP-Billiton, Newmont, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto
"Spare our homeland" rainforest tribes plead with B.C. mining giant
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Provincial governments, indigenous peoples, environmentalists and academics from Canada to Asia to Australia are lining up to stop mining giant Placer Dome from tearing down a rainforest on the island of Borneo to hunt for gold.The company is eyeing the last remaining native forest in Kalimantan called the Meratus Mountain Range, which is on the Indonesian side of Borneo.The ...
Indonesia, Barrick Gold, Placer Dome
Government and Community Demand Placer Dome Out of Borneo
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
The government of South Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia, and Dayak Indigenous Community leaders have strongly denounced Placer Dome, a Vancouver and Sydney-based mining company, for its plans to commence mining operations in one of the last protected tropical forests in Indonesia. Despite fierce local government and community backlash, the mining giant intends to exploit mineral ...
Indonesia, Barrick Gold, Placer Dome

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