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Patagonia Under Siege: Double threat of Cyanide Leach Mining and Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) imperils the Futaleufu River Valley - Kinross Gold & Geocom Resources responsible
http://patagonia-under-siege.blogspot.com/2007/12/double-threat-of-cyanide-leach-mining.html
Documenting the battle to save one of the last wild places on earth. Thursday, December 20, 2007. Double threat of Cyanide Leach Mining and Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) imperils the Futaleufu River Valley - Kinross Gold and Geocom Resources responsible. Mine Tailings, Sudbury Ontario, Edward Burtnyski. One of the world’s greatest adventure tourism destinations is being threatened by the plans of Kinross Gold Corporation, of Canada. And Geocom Resources Inc. of the United States. Have often shoved aside indig...
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Patagonia Under Siege: Whole Life Valentine's Day Gift Guide - Your Purchasec Say no to Dirty Gold and the Destruction of Patagonia, Chile
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Documenting the battle to save one of the last wild places on earth. Friday, February 15, 2008. Whole Life Valentine's Day Gift Guide - Your Purchasec Say no to Dirty Gold and the Destruction of Patagonia, Chile. Bestowing your beloved with conflict diamonds and dirty gold is hardly the best way to say “I love you.” Some jewelers are beginning to take notice:. To the one you love AND to responsible social and environmental values with a ring from San Francisco-based Brilliant Earth. The observation and a...
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Patagonia Under Siege: Leadville Mine Planning to Re-open by 2009 - Will Create 300 New Jobs - When the mine shut down, many Coloradans lost everything they knew
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Documenting the battle to save one of the last wild places on earth. Friday, February 15, 2008. Leadville Mine Planning to Re-open by 2009 - Will Create 300 New Jobs - When the mine shut down, many Coloradans lost everything they knew. Phelps Dodge Corp. is planning. To reopen the Climax Molybdenum mine near Leadville by 2009 after overhauling infrastructure and acquiring necessary permits, the company announced Wednesday. 8220;Phelps Dodge is committed to meeting the requirements of its customers and we...
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Patagonia Under Siege: The Gold Link – Moving Mountain Ranges for Jewelry
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Documenting the battle to save one of the last wild places on earth. Sunday, November 4, 2007. The Gold Link – Moving Mountain Ranges for Jewelry. Eighty five percent of the world’s gold production goes to the fabrication of jewelry. This is a visual story of the water, landscape, and people at the source of a new Andean gold supply located on the border of Argentina and Chile. Posted by Patagonia Under Siege Editor 1. Labels: Acid Mine Drainage - Arch. Overview: Patagonia Under Siege. Kinross Gold Corpo...
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Patagonia Under Siege: Pascua Lama Gold Mine: A Contemporary Quest for El Dorado
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Documenting the battle to save one of the last wild places on earth. Saturday, November 3, 2007. Pascua Lama Gold Mine: A Contemporary Quest for El Dorado. Pascua Lama Gold Mine Background. Pascua Lama is a mining project consisting of the open-pit exploitation of a deposit of gold, silver and copper ore and its processing to produce doré (gold and silver) and copper concentrate. The nearest communities are Chollay and Las Breas, located 35 and 55 km away, respectively. These facilities will be located i...
mackbrickley.blogspot.com
Dislocated: January 2009
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A year on the move. Sunday, January 25, 2009. We just had a quickie powerpoint introduction to the project. Very Cool. We head up to go start pulling fences this afternoon and have a BBQ with the other volunteers up there. We´ll be out for roughly a week then before we come back here and have a few free days. Schedules are not necessarily weekly, so I won´t necessarily have internet access every Saturday for instance. Pictures will arrive at some point, sorry. Looks alot like the picture in my first ...
tomandheather.wordpress.com
The Master Plan | La Vida Cotidiana
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Ordinary days . . . in an extraordinary year. About Tom and Heather. The economy is in shambles. Home values and retirement accounts are in limbo. Uncertainty and anxiety are the dominant themes. So what to do? We decided to quit our jobs and spend a year in Chile and Argentina! So here’s our general outline for the year ahead (subject to change as opportunities present themselves, of course):. Jan 23-26 Visit friends (La Katy) and h. Ang out near Santiago, Chile. Jan 27-Feb 15 Head. Thomas on What do we...
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Management - Executive Style Home - smh.com.au
http://www.smh.com.au/news/management/the-new-eco-barons/2007/10/04/1191091254562.html
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Skip directly to: Search Box. The new eco barons. October 4, 2007 - 2:25PM. Millionaire American conservationist Douglas Tompkins. Public-spirited billionaires are buying up ecosystems and turning them into conservation areas. Jonathan Franklin. In fact, millions of hectares worldwide are being bought by business leaders and placed in private charities, conservation trusts, or handed over to governments as a gift. It is pretty hard for a country to turn down a gift ...
climb.dk
Hans Bräuner-Osborne's blog: Cerro San Lorenzo part 1 - getting there
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MY BLOG ON MOUNTAINEERING, ICE and ROCK CLIMBING, SKIING, KAYAKING, TREKKING AND SCIENCE. Saturday, July 12, 2008. Cerro San Lorenzo part 1 - getting there. Let's go to Patagonia and climb in the winter! My friend Carlos Buhler. And I were looking for a June project and now I thought he had lost it! Next we discussed what to climb, and based on recommendations from Pere Vilarasau. Rolo Garibotti and others (and the fact that Carlos had already climbed Cerro. In the Fitz Roy. It took us a while to gather ...
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aventura argentina - why us?
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Most companies visiting this region also ‘specialise’ in the rest of the continent, or even the rest of the world. We’re a family business resolutely focused on showing you the best of Patagonia and a few other beautiful parts of Argentina. Oh, and we can't help but venture over the border into Chile once in a while. We’re a small company. Most of our clients are couples, famillies, or groups of 3 or 4 friends. We meet everyone personally and guides the ones that want to be guided. Many of our clients lo...
