PowerPoint Presentation
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Populations at Risk (NCSO, 2000)
CORDILLERA INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
History
History: American Colonial Period State Control Over Land and Resources
Nayak Tunnels of Lepanto Consolidated Mining Corporation
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Lepanto Mill Site (Yellow Cylinders Contain Cyanide and Other Chemicals Used in Gold Extraction)
Outlet of Lepanto CIP Mill
Lepanto Mill Site (Upper Left Corner) Spilling Mine Tailings into River Note: houses on both sides of the tailings flow
Mine Tailings Draining Into Dam
Mine Tailings Dam 5A
Mine Tailings Dam 5A Showing Its Outlet
Tailings Dam Outlet (Reddish-Orange Discoloration is Acid Mine Drainage)
Lepanto River (from Tailings Dam) Compared to Apaoan River (from Mountain Province)
Mine Tailings Harden Like Cement Along the Banks of the Abra River
Social Assessment
RESULTS: Social Assessment
Old Tailings Dams
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Massive Ground Subsidence: Colalo, Mankayan (White structures at the bottom are remains of Colalo Elementary School,1999)
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Poblacion, Mankayan
Mankayan Elementary School
Trends in Livelihood Systems
Sitio Camay, Cervantes, Ilocos Sur (Abnormal growth of palay downstream from mine drainage)
Environmental Investigatory Mission September 2002
ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATORY MISSION (EIM) Sampling Points
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SAVE THE ABRA RIVER MOVEMENT (STARM)
Quantitative Analysis for Selected Heavy Metals, SOIL, September 2002
Health Profile of Communities Living Near Corporate Gold Mining Operations in Mankayan, Benguet Province
Skin lesions after immersion in mine drainage
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Lepanto Mine Workers
Company Mine Workers’ Health
Water Quality Results
Community-Based Water Monitoring: Environmental Investigatory Missions
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PARTNER PEOPLE’S ORGANIZATIONS
STARM 1st General Assembly Benguet State University 19-20 November 2003 150 participants from 66 organizations
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1st prize Department of Health National Research Forum
Community-Based Water Monitoring System (CBWM): A PARTNERSHIP
On-Site Testing
Results of Water Analysis:CYANIDE
Results of Water Analysis: LEAD
Results of Water Analysis: MERCURY
In-Lab
Author: STARM
E-mail: abrariver@4d.net
Homepage: http://www.abrenian.com/starm
Further information: Abra River Presentation