2+Summaries+focusing+on+human+or+environmental+impact

Please fill out the information in the chart below. Summarize your article(s) with the focus on how humans and/or the environment are impacted by processes associated with your mineral. List the source at the end of your summary in a correct reference format.

Ida Know || //Bisie mining// || Congo or the DRC || The mining of bisie destroys the habitat of the mouse mole. Once the homes of the mouse mole have been covered up by the dumping of the overburden on the surface of the Earth, the mouse moles have to move to another location to make their homes. Since the indigenous people in this area depend on the mouse mole for the majority of their dietary needs, the people near the mine are suffering. When an elder in one of the communities, near one of the larger bisie mines was interviewed, he stated that his people are going hungry. He said, "Pretty soon we will have to eat things like cow and goat, once the mouse mole has been driven from the area.” The elder remembers when the mouse mole was so plentiful that they would cover the ground for miles. “Where once they had mouse mole roundups, you can't even catch one in a mouse mole trap, baited with their favorite food (Chicago Style Pizza),” stated one member of the community. A push cart vendor complained that he has lost thousands of dollars in sales of the local favorite “mouse mole on a stick”. He said he can’t get enough mouse moles to even meet the needs of the morning rush hour. “Pretty soon I will have to sell hot dogs,” stated the vendor. Parsons, Lizzie, Amy Barry, and Annie Dunnebacke. "Bisie killings show minerals at heart of Congo conflict." //Global witness //. Global witness press, 18 Aug. 2009. Web. 28 Oct. 2009. < [] >. || Johar, Gagandeep. "Mining-India: Woman Leads Tribals Against World's Steel Maker." Globalissues.com. Global Issues, Sept.-Oct. 09. Web. Oct.-Nov. 09. <[]> ArcelorMittal has planned to build a 12 million ton capacity steel plant in two states in India. The cost for the plants will be around 20 billion dollars. The building of the plants will destroy villages and take huge amounts of land. People will have to migrate to a different area and many will die. Farmers are going to have to surrender their land to the company. Their jobs will be taken away because they won't have any place to grow their crop. < Ethicalcorp.com. Ethical Corporation, Apr.-May 08. Web. Oct.-Nov. 09. < http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=5820 > ||
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 * Alex Elizalde || ​ Copper || Zambia ||  ||
 * Megan Harford & Eoanna || Asbestos || ​ Toledo, Ohio ||  ||
 * Sumi Cha & Alfred || Iron || Jharkhand, East India || ArcelorMittal is planning on doing an 8.2 billion dollar steel plant project. This includes them building a steel plant in Jharkhand, easter India that takes up 12,000 acres of land. Building this steel plant will uproot 40 villages and 70,000 indigenous people in indigenous state. This global steel gaint has been assigned vast coal blocks and iron ore sites, so the mining will obliterate dense forests and rivers all around this place. Not only is this project going to damage the people that live there, but it will also damage the nature around it as well. Dayamani Barla, a journalist and activist, and Adivasi Moolvaasi Ashthitva Raksha Manch (AMARM) are trying to stop this project to save the people, village, and nature of Jharkhand, easter India.

. & Danny Ward || Diamond || Sierra Leone || This article is what gives an in-depth realization of how this bloody conflict was first sparked. Between 1991 and 1999 over 4.5 Sierra Leoneans were displaced after the fights and rebellions that also caused over 75,000 deaths. This dirty business of diamond mining took cover and went under the radar by using the fighting and warfare as a distraction. De Beers was directly involved in Sierra Leone but every since then they have been making indirect contact. A conflict diamond is a diamond that originates from an area where factions are opposed to legitimate governments. Diamonds can be used as a type of currency for the warring factions, by getting them weapons and supplies that they need to fuel the war. Being able to control these diamond caches would prove to put an end to the bloodshed and hardships because the rebels would have no source to pay for their weapons. So all in all this article makes sense of the things that are not so relevant when we first look over the issues of the blood diamond industry. The longer this problem goes without being sorted out the more and more deaths will occur.
 * Kevork Boyadjian

http://www.africaaction.org/docs00/sl0001.htm

"Sierra Leone: Diamonds and War." Africa Action: Activism for Africa Since 1953. Africa Action. Web. 09 Nov. 2009. .

This article is what brings the reality of the issues to real life. After reading this article you too will see how much it pains me to the hardships created by the warring rebels and factions. The article on this internet source mainly refers to the problems at Waterloo camp. This was one of the many camps established at the time of the creation of the mining caches of diamonds. But the cite also takes a lot of time to talk about all of the different kinds of solutions that are possible ways to solve or maybe even diminish the problems and issues that are taking place over at he diamond caches. One of the ways to help resolve this problem is a certificate of authentication that the government would be able to control, making the illegal diamonds unusable. It would be called Certificate of Origin; that would ensure that the diamonds were legally mined and refined. This diamond mining is putting the civilians in danger because they are in the midst of a war that has been raging for some time now.

http://www.un.org/peace/africa/Diamond.html

"Conflict diamonds." Welcome to the United Nations: It's Your World. UN. Web. 09 Nov. 2009. . || & Eric Mason || Copper || Chile ||  || Silviu Pavel || Silver || El Salvador || El Dorado mine aquired 144 kilometers of land from El salvador, but people dont want them to be there. The mining company said that it will create 2000 direct and indirect jobs and would also pay 3% of gross profit in taxes to state. THe new laws would create utonomous authority in charge of granting concessions, taking over that power from the ministries, and without requiring environmental impact studies. Residents of El salvador dont wat this to happen. When the minning occurs, there is going to be many problems, such as acid drainage, water pollution, and evaporation of cyanide, used in the leaching process to separate gold and silver from rock. This will destroy El salvador. Mining would also exacerbate water shortages in a number of areas. The biggest impact if Cyanide Evaporation that will travel through all El salvadro but through out all of central america. ALso "Acid drainage" of mercury, cyanide, arsenic, zinc and aluminium, at levels "much higher than permitted levels," will pollute surface waters and cause many health problems. Water will also be a problem Large amounts of water are needed in precious metal mines for leaching, so "the water table will fall to a depth of about 400 metres El Dorado mine would pump between 75 and 110 litres per second from groundwater sources and from the San Francisco river, which supplies the local population with water. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45035 Incorrect reference citation
 * Stacey Cherukara
 * Carlos Garcia

In El Dorado, they found a mine that contains Silver and Gold, A part of the mountain ( 144 square feet.) was sold to a mining company in 2002. They estimated around 1.2 million ounces of gold and 7.4 million ounces of silver will be extracted withen a period of 6 years. The biggest problem from this is that the evaporated Cyanide, which occurs at 26 celcius, abnd will rain upon fresh water, the Lempa River. 1/3 of the water consumed by over 2 million in the metropolian area in El Salvador. More than 1.5 million people dont have clean water to access. In 2007 the community sued the Compay but failed. [] Incorrect reference citation ||

Cassidy Burns || Quartz || Shenzhen City, China || Quartz Manufacturers in Shenzhen is a very big exporter and they also make more money when the mineral is imported. Importing and exporting Quartz out of Shenzhen City helps their economy financially. They make a profit from exporting the mineral but sell it for more. Besides disturbing the area where there was mining of the Quartz, there was limited enviornmental impact. Basically, it did some good and bad with the human impact but so much of an impact enviornmently. The shenzhen city has an advantage because they have a lot of shipments so basically, Shenzhen is economically impacted but in a positive way from the Quartz. http://www.tradekey.com/product_view/id/141983.htm Incorrect reference citation || Ryan Serpa || GOLD || Sibutad, Zamboanga del Norte //Philippines// || In the Philippines mining ranks first on the list of the recently the most hazardous occupations. The data shows 3.7 million Of 22.3 million children between 5 and 17 years of age have been identified as working children. They have to work in quite hard condition; they work underground and get break after 6 hours of work. . Mineral deposits in this province include chromate, gold, bentonite, marble, limestone, quartz, pebbles and gravel. For many it is a family activity where both children and parents are engaged in different stages of extracting and processing gold. Ancient and unsafe mining methods, insufficient equipment, and daring and unsafe practices are in the majority. Among the illnesses the children had suffered in the past due to mining, respiratory diseases were most common, followed by muscular-skeletal and gastro-intestinal disorders and skin diseases. No reference citation  || Jessica Berk || Silver || Nevada || Silver in Nevada forms on the surface. Over millions of years of Nevadas desert lands, the silver sulfide turned into silver chloride because of it's surrounding influences. Such as volcanic rocks and rainwater. The gray crusts were often polished by dust and wind to add luster. The mining corporations thrived on the deep veins and low-pay ores that the panners couldn't touch. This still effects us today because actions like this, is the reason why our earth is so heavily polluted and we are having global warming issues. The rough, violent life of so many Western silver movement reached its purest state in the Nevada silver camps, and the economy and politics of the state have been deeply marked ever since. Alden, Andrew. "The Nevada Silver Rush." //About Geology - The Complete Guide to Geology//. Web. 27 Oct. 2009. []. Silver plays no known natural biological role in humans, and possible health effects of silver are a subject of dispute. Silver itself is not toxic but most silve salts can be, and some might be carcinogenic. Silver and compounds containing silver can be absorbed into the circulatory system and go into many different body tissues leading to a condition called argyria, which can cause a blue-grayish pigmentation of the skin, eyes, and in mucus membranes. Although this condition does not otherwise harm a person's health, it is disfiguring and usually permanent. Argyria is rare, and mild forms are sometimes mistaken for cyanoisis. This condition might become a threat to our health but it isn't likely, anyways we should still be very careful when it comes to this. Silver." __The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition__. Columbia University Press., 2003. //Answers.com// 22 Feb. 2006. <@http://www.answers.com/topic/silver>. || a different area then Sierra Leone ||  || Matt Perchess || Diamonds || Angola || In 1975, Angola got its independce and made a diamond company called, //Endiama.// They started to sell diamonds,but by 1999, they had to withdraw from Angolan market due to the negative publicity form conflict diamonds.After they withdrew, theier were conflicts over diamonds, and started to force people to find diamonds. The working conditions were bad, and many people started to die becasue of this. These conflicts still go on today, and they are trying to stop it, but cant stop it. [] Incorrect reference citation
 * Rita Baturin
 * Hardik Patel
 * Adriana Lukovic
 * joana || diamonds || Must pick
 * Ariana and Laksmi || copper || Cordilleras, Philippines || Because of mining in the Phillipines, water is really being affected. Main water sources for drinking are being affected majorly. For them • MONTREAL, LANI T. "Lepanto Mining and Life in the Cordillera." N. pag. Print. [] ||
 * Eman Issaghi

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Blood diamonds are stones that are produced in areas controlled by rebel forces that are conflicting to globally accepted governments. Another name for blood diamonds is conflict diamonds. These rebels that conflict the government sell the blood diamonds and use the money for purchasing weapons or to fund the actions of their military forces. Blood Diamonds are often produced through the forced labor of men, women and children. They can also sometimes be stolen during transport or apprehended by attacking the mining operations of valid manufacturers. The most valuable stones are then smuggled into international markets and sold as legal gems. Massive amounts of profit are made at a time, as result of these blood diamonds, and bribes, threats, torture, and murder are an outcome of this illegal operation. This is why these precious stones are said to be “Blood diamonds.” The origin of blood diamonds are primarily from the western countries of Africa, including Sierra Leone, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia and Ivory Coast. The United Nations are trying to stop the access of blood diamonds into the international diamond trade market. Their attempt has been to develop a government certification process known as the “Kimberly Process”. This process entails each country to verify that all rough diamond exports are produced through justifiable mining and sales activity. All rough diamonds exported from these nations must be accompanied by a legalized certification, granting this exportation. These documents state that the diamonds were produced, sold and exported through legal control and followed every law and every step necessary for the transaction. Countries who concur to partake in the Kimberly Process are not allowed to trade with outside nations that support the processing of blood diamonds. The Kimberly Process has drastically reduced the number of blood diamonds that are reaching global diamond trade markets today. Currently, 71 governments and several non politically recognized organizations tolerate the Kimberly Process. The World Diamond Council, internationally recognized organization, estimates that about 99% of all gems now considered conflict free. ||
 * Ivan Marin || Gold || Indonesia ||  ||
 * Patrick Dymora || Gypsum || El Salvador ||  ||