South-western Ecuador, one of the most biologically and culturally diverse areas on the planet, is under threat from open-cast copper and gold mining, and extensive oil exploration contracts that will destroy vast areas of old-growth rainforest and displace entire groups of indigenous people.
The dam walls at the Mirador mine will inevitably break, releasing toxic waste and destroying vast areas of the Amazon.
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The Mirador Mine Animation
Working with scientists and engineers in South Africa, USA, Spain and Ecuador we have created this animation to increase awareness of the extreme risk to human life and the environment of a collapse of the Mirador Mine tailings dams. The Minister of Mines was called by the Ecuadorian National Assembly to explain why he was withholding information pertaining to the structure of the dams and the treatment of waste water. He resigned after receiving information that he was to be impeached by the National Assembly for non-appearance, April 27th.