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MINING 7 - Barrick and the Cruelty of Gold

COMMONS

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The Palgra Mine in Papua New Guinea

In two thousand, katherine went to papa new guinea to visit the mine. She saw first hand the environmental damage that was taking place. The waste rocks were piled high around pogra the size of small mountains. This material coming out of these waste rock dumps was a bit like quicksand. And i actually saw an entire elementary school that had collapse into the waste flow. Was just being carried down stream and being buried by the waste.

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