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28 Sep 2008

Author:
Rights Action, in You Tube

[video] The Real Costs of Gold Mining: Goldcorp, Inc. in Honduras

[This video was shot in September 2007 in the Siria Valley...Honduras, where...Goldcorp company - formerly Glamis Gold - operates the San Martin open pit gold mine...Widespread health impacts have been reported in several communities surrounding the mine...affecting many children, pregnant women and mine workers...The Entremares mining company is the Goldcorp subsidiary...The harms [include] cracked homes...[from] the dynamite explosions...Water shortage is now an endemic crisis in the Siria Valley...] [The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Goldcorp to respond to this video. Goldcorp declined to respond]