Experts fear these precious animals may already be extinct, less than 50 remain alive due to #goldmining and #palmoil. Help protect the enchanting Telefomin #Cuscus from disappearing forever when u #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-nv?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
Environmental Impact of Gold Mining
Gold mining can bring severe pollution hazards, including:
• Water Pollution – Cyanide & mercury contamination threaten aquatic life & human health.
• Air Pollution – Dust and toxic fumes harm air quality & respiratory health.
• Soil Degradation – Heavy metals like mercury & arsenic poison the land, harming agriculture & wildlife.
• Biodiversity Loss – Destruction of natural habitats leads to extinction of vulnerable species.
• Health Risks – Exposure to toxic chemicals causes neurological damage, cancers, and more.
• Acid Mine Drainage – Harmful acids leak into water systems, causing long-term damage.
A stark reminder: The Cadia gold mine has been convicted of breaching dust limits five times between 2021-2023, with one test showing nearly 6x the allowable dust limit. Newmont Corporation has been fined $350,000 in penalties.
It’s time for stricter regulations and sustainable mining practices!
#goldmining #environmentalimpact #pollution #waterpollution #airpollution #soildegradation #biodiversity #healthrisks #sustainablemining #newmont #cadia #dustpollution #environmentaljustice #fines
#OutbackOpalHunters is next on #miningFriday.
#opal #GoldMining
Lots of panoramic views of beautiful Australia.
And it's funny to watch them mix machinery in a different country. 
@samhkennedy we should whack a tariff on gold exports. That’d annoy them.
https://mining.com.au/australias-non-monetary-us-gold-exports-skyrocket-early-2025/
Colourful tree-dwellers Channel-billed Toucans are #Amazon #icons in #Brazil 
#Venezuela 
#Colombia 
Threats include #PalmOil 
#Soy #Meat 
and #GoldMining 
Help them survive when you #BoycottPalmOil 
️ #BoycottGold #Boycott4Wildlife
http://palmoildetectives.com/2021/08/02/channel-billed-toucan-ramphastos-vitellinus/
The Indonesian longfinned #eel is a sleek powerful #fish 
Their long dorsal fin gives them agility. Threats include #goldmining and #palmoil #deforestation in #Indonesia 
#Malaysia. Help them and #BoycottPalmOil ️ #Boycott4Wildlife
http://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/24/indonesian-longfinned-eel-anguilla-borneensis/
_The Evening Post_, 4 December 1924:
A VERY OLD IDENTITY
Probably one of the oldest of Wellington’s old identities at present living is just now on a visit to the city in the person of Mr. C. #Whebby, who was six months old when he landed in #Wellington with his parents by the ship Clifton on 18th February, 1842. Mr. Whebby, who has been engaged in #goldmining all his life, has never been out of New Zealand. He was amongst the first at the Gabriel’s Gully and Dunstan’s rush at Otago in the 60’s, and was for many years on the Lyell (West Coast). He has many stirring recollections, including a narrow escape from Burgess, Kelly, Levy, and Sullivan, when these notorious Maungatapu #murderers were operating on the West Coast.… Burgess, Kelly, and Levy were subsequently tried, found guilty, and executed in Nelson Gaol, while Sullivan, who turned Queen’s evidence was reprieved.… about 15 murders were accounted for, while the exact number will probably never be known. For the last 35 years Mr. Whebby has been residing in Mahakipawa, which is expected to again become a big gold-producing district. During his visit to Wellington Mr. Whebby is the guest of his nephew, Mr. T. W. Twist, at Plimmerton.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19241204.2.135
New #study finds that recycling #gold 
would eliminate the mercury pollution and #deforestation of #goldmining. It would also mean an end to violent #indigenous landgrabbing for #gold in #SouthAmerica #BoycottGold4Yanomami @palmoildetect.bsky.social
http://palmoildetectives.com/2024/10/20/how-we-end-gold-minings-ecocide-for-good/
New #study finds that recycling #gold would eliminate the mercury pollution and #deforestation of #goldmining. It would also mean an end to violent #indigenous landgrabbing for #gold in #SouthAmerica #BoycottGold4Yanomami @palmoildetectives
https://wp.me/pcFhgU-90d
A new study concludes that nearly all of the gold imported into the European Union from Brazil comes from Amazonian areas with a high risk of illegality.
That amounts to 1.5 metric tons of the precious metal in 2023, sourced from wildcat mines known as garimpos, which have a long history of illegality and opaqueness.
By Fernanda Wenzel
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/nearly-all-brazilian-gold-imported-by-eu-is-likely-illegal-report-says/
#Ghana hollows out #forests and green protections to advance #mining interests
Malavika Vyawahare
28 Aug 2024
via @mongabay
Key points:
- The Ghanaian government has significantly ramped up the approval of mining permits under legislation passed in late 2022, intensifying concerns about runaway environmental damage.
- The country is already the top #gold producer in #Africa, but much of the mining is done in #forest reserves and other #biodiverse #ecosystems.
- The government has long cracked down on artisanal illegal #GoldMiners, but activists say the real damage is being wrought by #industrial operations, both legal and illegal.
- A debt default in 2022 has seen #Ghana lean even more heavily on its gold to mitigate the crisis, prompting warnings that such a policy is neither #economically nor #environmentally #sustainable.
#ApampramaReserve #HeritageImperial #WaterIsLife #SaveTheForests #NoMiningWithoutConsent #CorporateColonialism #C&GAleska #GoldMining #GSBA #LithiumMining #BodiForestReserve #IMFLoans #WorldBank #IMFLoanSharks
Activists ask for help combatting violence against #Nicaragua’s #Indigenous communities
Maxwell Radwin
29 Jul 2024
"Increasing violence in northern Nicaragua this year has displaced rural families and led to calls for more drastic action from the international community, which activists say hasn’t done enough to hold the #Ortega government accountable for human rights abuses.
"For years, Indigenous communities on Nicaragua’s northern #Caribbean coast have suffered threats, kidnappings, torture and unlawful arrests while defending communal territory from #IllegalSettlements and #mining. This year appears to be as bad as ever, and residents say they are desperate for help.
"'Urgent measures must be taken to protect these communities,' said Gloria Monique de Mees, the OAS rapporteur on the rights of Afro-descendants and against racial discrimination. 'Failure to address the crisis will only embolden the Nicaraguan government to continue its repressive campaign.'
"Much of the violence is concentrated within the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region (#RACCN), a jurisdiction communally governed and titled by Indigenous communities since the late 1980s. It’s home to #Miskitus, #Mayangnas, #Ulwa, #Ramas, #Creole and #Garífunas peoples, and contains mountain, #rainforest and coastal #ecosystems.
"The area has attracted non-Indigenous Nicaraguans, known locally as #colonos, looking to set up #farms, #logging operations and artisanal #mines. Massive #gold and #copper deposits have also created opportunities for multinational mining #corporations, with backing from the government.
"Indigenous communities say they’re worried about losing #AncestralLand as well as traditional farming, hunting and fishing practices as the forest is cleared and mines #pollute local streams and rivers."
via @verdantsquare
Alaska Tribes Appeal to International Body to Pause “Reckless” Canadian #Mining
Canada ordered the tribes be denied “participating #Nation status,” diminishing their say in the permitting process.
By Joaqlin Estus , #ICT
August 8, 2024
#Earthjustice and Re:wild join the 15 tribes that make up the commission in asking Canada to recognize the sovereign rights of Alaska tribes and consult them on all development decisions impacting their traditional territories.
Anchorage, Alaska — "A group of Southeast Alaska tribes requested on Aug. 1 that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights order a temporary pause on Canadian mining activity. They say 'reckless' mining activity violates their #HumanRights.
"That came after Canada’s Ministry of Land, Water and Resource Stewardship ordered on June 27 that the tribes be denied 'participating Nation status,'' which has the effect of diminishing their say in the permitting process.
"Lee Wagner, who is #Haida, #Tlingit and #Tsimshian, and the assistant executive director of the #Southeast =Alaska #Indigenous Transboundary Commission, said the 15 tribes in the commission did everything they could to prove their ties to Canadian lands where #GoldMining is proposed. They won a lawsuit at the Canadian Supreme Court saying tribes with traditional ties to territory within Canada qualify for participating #IndigenousNation status. That status would require agencies to consult with and accommodate them in the permitting process.
[...]
"[Lee Wagner] said the mines are for gold, a luxury, 'They’re not a necessity, but they’re going to be endangering a whole #ecosystem and biodiverse, cultural, old, traditional, beautiful area.'
"The commission said the #UnukRiver watershed, which supports #salmon and #eulachon runs, is at stake. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the eulachon run nearly disappeared and was shut down in 2005. In 2021 the fishery was opened again but harvest was restricted to one five-gallon bucket per household."
#FirstNations #Canada #Alaska #ReWild #CulturalGenocide #GoldMine #MiningWithoutConsent
#ProtectTheSacred #Ecocide #NativeAmericanNews #IndigenousNews #NoMiningWithoutConsent #CorporateColonialism #Colonialism
#Kayapó #ForestDefenders Urge #UnitedNations to Help Halt Illegal #GoldMining in #Brazil
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews
July 23, 2024
GENEVA -- "#Indigenous from Brazil urged the United Nations to join them and demand Brazil halt illegal gold mining, and its #mercury #contamination, now destroying the ancestral homelands of #Kayapó, #Yanomami and #Munduruku Peoples, during the U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
"Doto Takak Ire, Mebêngôkre, said, 'The Kayapó are still warriors and we will always be defenders of the forests.'
"'We do not want any kind of #exploitation of #NaturalResources in our territories. We want the #Amazon protected, so that our children and all the children of the world can grow up healthy.'"
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/07/kayapo-forest-defenders-urge-united.html
Violence and Repression: #Indigenous from #Russia, #Algeria and #Nicaragua Appeal to the #UnitedNations
#CulturalSurvival: "#LatinAmerica is one of the most dangerous regions to be an #IndigenousRights and #environmental defender. Three out of four assassinations of environmental defenders take place in Latin America. Indigenous defenders face a double threat: defending rights and being Indigenous."
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews
July 17, 2024
GENEVA -- "The #coal and #GoldMining in Russia has driven #IndigenousPeoples from their homes and poisoned their rivers. In Nicaragua, the assassinations and imprisonment of #LandDefenders has fractured families and communities, presenters told the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
"In Algeria, the people have barely survived 3,000 years of violent #colonization and #genocide.
'Other people should not undergo what we have experienced – which is the case now in #Palestine,' said the representative from the Algeria Association, Learned Society of scientific research, religious and mystical bodies. Describing the genocide in Algeria, he said France has thousands of bones and craniums of the people in French museums.
"An Indigenous woman from #Khakassia Republic in Siberia described the coal and gold mining: 'Coal is mined, despite mass protests, the government used land, private property for this, and citizens were driven out of their homes.' Now, she said, the conditions are no longer good for livestock breeding, which is their way of life.
"'The government is only interested in the presence of natural resources -- but we are a resource ourselves,' she told the #UnitedNations.
"'Our language is disappearing, and we only have one school in the republic where the language is taught. We are #Khakas but we do not govern #Khakassia.'
"'Nothing has been done to protect our land. The main priority is the mining for materials.'
"'I also note the #Shors are suffering from gold mining, they have territory for traditional nature management created by the Republic of Khakassia, traditionally they are fishers and hunters and so on.'
"'However, companies are #polluting rivers, and this water should be used for vital needs. This water flows through villages, however it is polluted, but companies do not put an end to their activities."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/07/violence-and-repression-indigenous-from.html
#WaterIsLife #Indigenous #FirstPeoples #NativeRights
#HumanRights #Deforestation #GreedKills #StopEcocide
#StopIndigenousGenocide
#Environmental #ClimateCrisis
#StopKillingForests #IndigenousLand #NativeLand #EcoJustice #InformedConsent
#FirstNations #Colonialism
#CorporateColonialism
#Mining #CulturalGenocide
#IndigenousSovereignty
#LandBack #WaterIsLife
#Canada #LandDefenders
#sovereignty
#GrassyNarrows #FirstNation taking #Ontario to court over #MiningAct, lack of consultation on land claims
'These practices have to change,' #ChiefRudyTurtle tells news conference at Queen's Park
Sarah Law · CBC News · Posted: Jul 12, 2024
"A First Nation in northwestern Ontario is taking the province to court over its Mining Act, arguing the free-entry system violates its constitutional rights.
"#Asubpeeschoseewagong #Anishinabek, known as Grassy Narrows First Nation, has issued a notice of application in the Superior Court of Justice.
"The legal action says the province's Mining Act does not require prospectors to consult with First Nations before staking claims on their traditional lands. It argues this breaches the First Nation's treaty rights under Sec. 35 of the Constitution and goes against the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples [#UNDRIP].
"According to the notice of application obtained by CBC News, there are about 10,000 mining claims in Grassy Narrows's interim area of interest for mining, which covers more than 2,850 square kilometres — more than four times the size of Toronto.
"Grassy Narrows has had a long history of land defence efforts:
- In 2007, the First Nation declared a moratorium on #industrial activity in its territory until the Crown obtained its consent.
- In 2015, Grassy Narrows people voted against industrial #logging in its territory during a community referendum.
- In 2018, Grassy Narrows enacted a land declaration, which bans mining, staking and exploration activities without consent.
- In 2022, the First Nation marked 20 years of its blockade to prevent #ClearCut logging and mining from happening in its traditional territories.
"Grassy Narrows is one of many First Nations in the region speaking out against exploration activities:
- In April, the #Ojibways of #Onigaming issued a statement objecting to a proposed permit for the exploration of an aggregate pit located off Highway 71.
- In March, Cat Lake First Nation filed a court injunction to pause a #GoldMining company's construction of a temporary winter road leading to an exploration camp for a proposed #OpenPit mine.
- Last August, Kiashke Zaaging #Anishinaabek (#KZA), also known as #GullBay First Nation, issued a public notice to warn mining prospectors away from its traditional territory."
#silentsunday #Sierranevada #california #GoldMining Malakoff Diggins near Nevada City, CA.
L'ultima miniera d'oro della #Sardegna, una lezione da ricordare
https://www.metallirari.com/ultima-miniera-oro-sardegna-lezione-da-ricordare/
Pinos Altos was a gold mining town. Many of the buildings date back to the town’s mining boom; like the museum, the opera house, and the local saloon, all of which have been restored and loaded with local memorabilia and artifacts - https://explorationvacation.net/2015/03/like-a-ghost-town-pinos-altos-new-mexico/
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