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Glaciers are a thick mass of ice that originates in the Earth's surface compaction and recrystallization of snow, 10% of the Earth is covered by glaciers, which store about 33 million km3 of fresh water. From
end of the Little Ice Age around 1850, glaciers around the world have been decreasing in volume; The mid-latitude mountain ranges such as the Himalayas, Alps, Pyrenees, Rockies and the southern Andes, as well as isolated tropical summits such as Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, are showing some of the most significant losses in proportion.
The mining project "Pascua Lama", involving the governments of Chile and Argentina, and has an investment of 1500 million dollars, causing great concern among the residents of the Huasco Valley, due to excessive pollution generate in the water sector and glaciers. The site gold and silver "Pascua Lama" is located five meters in 1200 (5,200 mts. in height), and it is expected that this project will give employment to over six thousand workers until 2009.
In the Valle de San Felix, the purest water in Chile runs from rivers fed by two glaciers, where the most precious resource, water. Huge deposit of gold, silver and other minerals have been found under glaciers.
Glaciers are a thick mass of ice that originates in the Earth's surface compaction and recrystallization of snow, 10% of the Earth is covered by glaciers, which store about 33 million km3 of fresh water. From end of the Little Ice Age around 1850, glaciers around the world have been decreasing in volume; The mid-latitude mountain ranges such as the Himalayas, Alps, Pyrenees, Rockies and the southern Andes, as well as isolated tropical summits such as Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, are showing some of the most significant losses in proportion.
The mining project "Pascua Lama", involving the governments of Chile and Argentina, and has an investment of 1500 million dollars, causing great concern among the residents of the Huasco Valley, due to excessive pollution generate in the water sector and glaciers. The site gold and silver "Pascua Lama" is located five meters in 1200 (5,200 mts. in height), and it is expected that this project will give employment to over six thousand workers until 2009.
In the Valle de San Felix, the purest water in Chile runs from rivers fed by two glaciers, where the most precious resource, water. Huge deposit of gold, silver and other minerals have been found under glaciers.
To reach these deposits is necessary to break and destroy the glaciers (something never conceived in the history of humanity) and make 2 huge holes, each as big as a mountain, one for extraction and others for the waste of your ad mina.Desde binational mining project "Pascua Lama" Civil society organizations such as the Observatory of Indigenous Peoples Rights, the ocean, the Latin American Observatory for Environmental Conflicts, OLCA, and Program Public Interest and Human Rights UDP, have done a follow-up and actions to raise awareness and sensitize the public about the various cultural and environmental impacts of the mining project "Pascua Lama" will have on indigenous and peasant communities in the area.
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