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Marinduque Marcopper (2)
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The lingering memories of the 1996 Marcopper mining disaster on Marinduque Island, where toxic pollution spoiled fishing waters (affecting marine and coral life in the process) and which also caused health problems among local villagers, still casts a long shadow over the entire industry of Mining within the Philippines, we are reminded of this preventable disaster recently, when an Australian Run Mining company had a little Toxic Spill to contain. Gloria (President) has ruled out banning the operations. The Philippines in theory, should have a booming Mining, given that the country has some of the world's biggest under-exploited deposits of copper, gold and to a lesser degree nickel, and commodity prices are at historic highs.
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Taken at Marcopper's Santa Cruz Mine, this is the view along the old road that sits unrepaired ever since Marcopper packed up everything and left after the Mining Disaster. Nowadays, the effects can be seen, but at a very, very lesser extent. I've snorkelled around each part of Marinduque nearly, and the Marine life is growing and new life is flourishing, but you still see the old effects. Such as the many dead coral's and reef's that still remain, luckily, new coral is forming where the old skeletons remain. A Big change since the 90's.
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