SubscribeThe citizens of Baja California Sur oppose the open pit gold mine know as Paredones Amarillas located in the Municipality of La Paz. This blog is dedicated to providing information about the dangers this project will pose to our community. We are prompted to act by the continuing efforts of parent company Vista Gold in their ongoing public relations initiative to convince the Mexican Government that the open pit Gold Mine known as Paradones Amarillas is environmentally benign, and that it is socially and economically desirable for them to allow an open pit gold mine in the midst of the pristine Sierra de la Laguna biosphere. WATER IS WORTH MORE THAN GOLD! For information in Spanish go to http://ParedonesAmarillosNO.com
WATER IS WORTH MORE THAN GOLD! Baja California Sur vehemently OPPOSES the Concordia Gold (Paredones Amarillos) open pit gold mine because of the irreparable damage it will cause to our community and the Sierra de la Laguna Biosphere Reserve. For more information info@VistaGoldNo.com. For Spanish go to info@ParedonesAmarillosNO.com and http://ParedonesAmarillosNO.com.
OPEN PIT GOLD MINING
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SIERRA DE LA LAGUNA BIOSPHERE
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HOW CAN YOU HELP
Write to Congress and other government officials to express your opposition to the Concordia and Pediment/Pitalla Gold projects.
Go to http://www.vistagoldno.com/2009/11/we-need-your-help-now.html
You will find instruction for sending a letter to relevant public officials.
If you have information, articles, photos or video that you think should be included in this site email:
info@VistaGoldNO.com
We need your help to fund this protest. Find out how you can make a donation. Send your email to: info@VistaGoldNO.com
For Spanish go to http://www.ParedonesAmarillosNO.com
info@ParedonesAmarillosNO.com
Go to http://www.vistagoldno.com/2009/11/we-need-your-help-now.html
You will find instruction for sending a letter to relevant public officials.
If you have information, articles, photos or video that you think should be included in this site email:
info@VistaGoldNO.com
We need your help to fund this protest. Find out how you can make a donation. Send your email to: info@VistaGoldNO.com
For Spanish go to http://www.ParedonesAmarillosNO.com
info@ParedonesAmarillosNO.com
IMPORTANT SITES AND ARTICLES
Canadian-held miners face backlash in Mexico: Toronto Sun - Money
The Front for the Defense of the Popular Economy Opposes Paredones Amarillos: The FDEP announced their opposition to the open pit mine known as Paredones Amarillos.
Adrian Chavez the director of PRD in the State announces rejection of Paredones Amarillos mine.
Calls the project a grave danger to the environment.
No Dirty Gold is a powerful collection of articles and publications that give information about Open Pit gold Mining.
Mexicans Up In Arms Against Mine : John Holman writes this compelling article about the opposition to the Vista Gold open pit mine in San Pedro, Mexico
Mexico: The Next Gold Powerhouse Player: A fascinating article about the aggressive invasion of Mexico by the Gold mining industry.
New York Times series on the environmental and human cost of open pit mining.
- "Behind Gold's Glitter: Torn Lands and Pointed Questions" (Part 1)
- "Treasure of Yanacocha: Tangled Strands in Fight Over Peru Gold Mine" (Part 2) (PDF 61KB)
- "Below a Mountain of Wealth, a River of Waste" (Part 3) (PDF 377KB)
- "A Drier and Tainted Nevada May Be Legacy of a Gold Rush" (Part 4) (PDF 348KB)
- Flash slide show: The Cost of Gold: 30 Tons an Ounce
- Flash slide show: The Cost of Gold: Treasure of Yanacocha
- "The Curse of Inca Gold" (PBS/New York Times documentary)
THE HIDDEN HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS OF GOLD MINING
http://www.pbs.org/
THE TOXIC COST OF GOLD MINING
http://findarticles.com/p/
THE DANGER OF MERCURY IN GOLD MINING
10 Things You Should Know
1. WATER IS BORN IN THE SIERRA. While regions like La Paz, Todos Santos and Los Cabos get only a little less than 4 inches of rain every year, in the high parts of the Sierra the average yearly rainfall is around 40 inches. The Sierra de la Laguna is the main source of water for the southern part of our state.
2. THE SIERRA DE LA LAGUNA HAS THE ONLY PINE FOREST IN THE STATE. The biodiversity of the Sierra de la Laguna is unique in the world. This forest contains the highest number of species of any terrestrial ecosystem in the state, including species
that exist nowhere else in the world, like 86 endemic species of vascular plants.
3. THE SIERRA IS UNDER THREAT. In June 1994, the Sierra de la Laguna Biosphere
Reserve was created, in order to protect this important piece of our natural heritage. Nonetheless, plans are currently underway to build an open- pit gold mine inside this protected area, in the Paredones Amarillos region. Because of its location and the technology it would use, the construction of this mine would represent a significant threat to the Sierra de la Laguna, its biodiversity, and its role as the water source of thousands of people.
4. A GOLD MINE IS FAR OUTLIVED BY THE WASTE AND POLLUTION IT GENERATES. The Paredones Amarillos gold mine plans to operate for only 9.5 years. The impacts generated by the mine’s waste and the chemicals used in its operation remain toxic for a long time and can last hundreds of years.
5. GOLD MINES ARE VERY POLLUTING. Extracting gold from stones is a process that uses and generates extremely toxic chemicals that can pollute water sources, this process also relies heavily on daily detonations that have very harmful effects on wildlife. The deadliest of these chemicals include cyanide, arsenic, sulfuric acid, lead, mercury and other heavy metals that can have dramatic effects on human health and on ecosystems.
6. MOST NEW GOLD IS USED FOR JEWLERY. A very small percentage of newly minted gold is destined for technology or medicine-related uses. Worldwide, a large portion of gold production; more than 80% according to some of the reviewed sources, is used in the jewelry industry. The production of a single gold ring, for example, generates up to 20 tons of waste.
7. OPEN-PIT GOLD MINING CREATES MOUNTAINS OF WASTE. LITERALLY. The Paredones Amarillos mine plans to extract around 40 tons of gold during the 9.5 year operation of the mine. Producing this amount of gold, according to the mine’s own calculations, will generate a ton of waste, per each gram of gold. This represents the production, during 9.5 years, of 40 million tons of waste; roughly 11,000 tons every day.
8. GOLD MINES LEAVE BEHIND GIANT CRATERS WHERE ECOSYSTEMS USED TO BE. The Paredones Amarillos mine plans to dig a 58.7 hectare crater in the Sierra. This is roughly equivalent to the 36 city blocks, or 54 football fields.
9. OPEN PIT GOLD MINING HAS A DARK HISTORY IN MEXICO AND THE WORLD. Across the globe, from Africa to Central America, different communities have experienced first-hand the environmental and social impacts of open- pit god, mining. More and more, empowered communities have refused to allow mining inside or close to sensitive ecosystems.
10. THERE IS STILL TIME. In the coming months, decisions will be made in La Paz and Mexico City to allow or prohibit the construction of the Paredones Amarillos gold mine. You can help protect the Sierra de la Laguna. Distribute this document and stay tuned. In the next few weeks we will be proposing specific activities to protect the Sierra de la Laguna.
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4 comments:
Gracias a todos por estar en la lucha de algo que no solo nos beneficia a los sudcalifornianos sino a todo Mexico.
No sean ridiculos, usen el cerebro. México les guste o no, es un país con rica tradición minera y con todo respecto, pero las actividades de las ONG no generan desarrollo y su aporte a la economia son claramente insignificantes. Que facil es decir "No a la Mineria", pero practicamente la totalidad de lo que usamos actualmente y que nos define como una sociedad avanzada y no como animales salvajes. Se lo debemos a los METALES que surgen de la MINERÍA. Tu computdora, IPOD, Nintendo, Automovil,Casa etc, existen gracias a la minería
Ahora bien, los GRINGOS de Todos Santos, los cuales se creen dueños de México se oponen a la Minería, pero su país USA, utiliza inconmesurables cantidades de metal, para fabricar sus bombitas, pistolas, portaaviones etc. etc. etc. y que orgullosamente, como parte de su sana sociedad, lanzan encima de otros paises ¿Eso es moral?, donde esta la etica.
Eso sin mencionar que todas las ONG utilizan metales de alguna manera.
Entonces me pregunto ¿no es una incongruencia?. Por ejemplo, si yo estoy en contra de la drogadicción, entonces no consumo drogas; es lógico ¿no?. Si las ONG estan en contra de las industrías, entonces deberían vivir sin los productos que estas generan ¿o no?.
Pero yo veo que tienen carros que consumen petroleo y que generan CO2, usan computadoras con "ORO" dentro de sus circuitos. ¿Eso es ética me pregunto yo?.
Y si a esta ya de por sí, falta de ética, le sumamos
-que protegen las tortugas de una playa, pero la de otras no.
-que se quejan de una mina en la reserva de la biosfera Sierra de La Laguna, pero nunca se han opuesto a las 3 minas que se encuentran en la reserva de la biosfera de Vizcaino.
-que protegen los ecosistemas, pero no se oponen a la construcción de hoteles a lo largo de la costa.
-que gastan miles o millones de pesos en desarrollar tecnologías y que siempre quedan en proyecto.
Con todo esto, a mi me disculparán, pero las ONG son todo menos protectoras del ambiente. Mas bien son una pantalla que tristemente mucha gente apoya con o sin conocimiento de causa y que además resulta en un jugoso negocio y sistema de manipulación.
De ustedes dependerá formarse un criterio, analizar y discutir o ser borregos de una farza
!!!!Por el desarrollo de BCS!!!!!!!!!
Way to go for the broke state. Print money instead, to pay off the chinese.
Or sell your children.
All mining activities create environmental hazards. All good land is occupied by local inhabitants, human and/or wild life. All construction requires mining products.
It is a question of whose life is more precious. If you are building something locally without mining locally, you are taking advantage of people/wildlife elsewhere. To be fair, stop mining all together, and stop building, stop tourism, reduce economic activity to bare minimum. That is the way to save earth. :)))
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