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Article

1 Sep 2013

Author:
Maricar Cinco, Philippine Daily Inquirer

Marinduque folk lose case vs mine firm [Philippines]

A...court in Marinduque threw out a case filed against Placer Dome...[which] fishermen sued for the damages caused by 16 years of dumping tons of mine tailings into the Calanacan Bay. The dismissal order…came as negotiations for a settlement continued between the Marinduque provincial government and Barrick...[which] absorbed…Placer Dome…The fishermen…claimed actual damage to people’s health and livelihood…The provincial government…in October 2006, filed a $100-million law suit against Placer Dome in a district court in Nevada. Marinduque’s counsel in the Nevada case…said the ongoing negotiations with Barrick were…[intended to] put to rest an almost two-decade-old mining issue. [refers to Marcopper Mining]