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Haiti to Be Fleeced of Its Gold By Canadian Mining Corporations | By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery

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Plans are under way for Canadian corporations to mine Haiti's northeast area near Caracol, which has been discovered to contain a wealth of silver and gold, in addition to copper. As in the Dominican Republic's Pueblo Viejo project, construction of the mines will involve dynamiting of mountains, and the ore will be extracted by an opencast (or open-pit) mining process that contaminates large volumes of water with cyanide. In addition a deep-water port is slated for construction in Fort Liberte, near Caracol, the site of one of the most beautiful bays in the world.
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Dady Chery grew up at the heart of an extended working-class family in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She emigrated to New York when she was fourteen and since then has traveled throughout the world and lived in Europe and several North American cities. She (more...)
 
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