Marinduque

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The Tapian Pit, Marcopper mine on Marinduque Island in the Philippines in 1989

Photograph by Catherine Coumans/MiningWatch Canada

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Pipes from the Marcopper mine pumping mine waste tailings into Calancan Bay at surface level in 1989

Photograph by Catherine Coumans/MiningWatch Canada

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Fishermen pass the seven kilometre

long causeway of mine tailings dumped from

Marcopper mine into Calancan Bay

Photograph by David

Sproule/Oxfam Australia

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Joel (8) and Edilon (6) Frondoza at

Botilao, CalancanBay, where locals fear that the fish

they eat is contaminated with heavy metals from

mine waste dumped into the

bayPhotograph by David Sproule/

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Students at Botilao School, Calancan Bay, where lead levels in the air were found to be double the Philippines

Environmental Protection Agency’s standard

Photograph by David Sproule/Oxfam Australia

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Eleven year old Michael Permjo

with his playmate, Jay Villaruel, both

from Calancan Bay. The sores on

Michael’s legs are commonplace –

local people attribute them to

heavy metal poisoning

Photograph by David Sproule/

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Seven year old Jason Peregrn with his

mother Rosalina at the health centre at

Calancan BayPhotograph by David Sproule/

Oxfam Australia

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Wilson Manuba, with his family. This Calancan Bay

fisherman had his leg amputated due

to arsenic poisoning

Photograph by David Sproule/Oxfam

Australia

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Illness spans generations: Wilson Manuba and his father Pedro – both Calancan Bay fishermen are suffering from

severe arsenic poisoning

Photograph by Ingrid Macdonald/Oxfam Australia

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Sonny Boy Matayafrom Bocboc,

Mogpog stands in front of millions of

tonnes of mine waste that sit above

the Maguila-Guiladam on the MogpogRiver. The dam has

been poorly maintained and

locals live in fear of a repeat disaster

Photograph by Ingrid Macdonald/

Oxfam Australia

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Two of Marites Tagle’sdaughters were killed when the

Maguila-Guila dam collapsed, sending tonnes of toxic silt down the Mogpog

RiverPhotograph by Ingrid Macdonald/

Oxfam Australia

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A local man living downstream on the

Mogpog River points to mine

tailings that have covered his fields since the Maguila-Guila dam collapse

in 1993Photograph by Ingrid Macdonald/

Oxfam Australia

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The Mogpog River, Marinduque Island. The red/orange colourand Oxfam’s scientific studies indicate acid mine drainage

and contamination by heavy metalsPhotograph by David Sproule/Oxfam Australia

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“They don’t hurt as much now, but still there is pain.”

Tomas Gutierrez (82) displays his scarred legs from his bed at home in Malusak, Mogpog. He blames his continual

skin diseases and health problems on pollution from the 1993 Mogpog River dam collapse

Photograph by David Sproule/Oxfam Australia

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This woman crosses the Mogpog River every day. She says that her rash is caused by pollution in the river

Photograph by David Sproule/Oxfam Australia

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Bags of mine waste tailings decomposing in the bright green/blue Boac River in March 2004

Photograph by Ingrid Macdonald/Oxfam Australia

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Animals drink water from the Boac River – local people say

the river is contaminated with toxic mine waste

Photograph by Ingrid Macdonald/

Oxfam Australia

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Bags full of contaminated tailings waste away on the banks of the Boac River – home to hundreds of people

Photograph by David Sproule/Oxfam Australia

Slide 19

Eliza Hernandez washes clothes at

Barangay Balingbing, in the

Boac River

She blames the rashes and sores on her

body on contamination from the Boac disaster

Photograph by David Sproule/Oxfam

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