MINING POLLUTION
The Advocate Village of Cordova, Mario Decara, warned that radioactive contamination could be producing uranium mine that operated from 1990. Mining Complex Manufacturing Giants, located a few miles from Carlos Paz, deposited millions of tons of radioactive waste on the ground, which could be seeping into the Valley watershed Punilla.
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| Manufacturing Mining Complex Los Gigantes, Córdoba |
The Ombudsman in Cordoba, Mario Decara , warned over the weekend about possible contamination of the watershed of Punilla with radioactive waste deposited in Los Gigantes, in the valley of Punilla. "This represents an alarming environmental risk and contamination may be seeping through the The stream Box that flows into the Rio San Antonio " said the defender. Technical
body days ago made several inspections and found that they are not performing remediation work at the site. Therefore, Decara requested the intervention of the National Atomic Energy Commission, Nuclear Regulatory Authority and the Ministry of Environment of the Province.
Hazardous materials are uranium waste deposited in what was the Giants Manufacturing Mining Complex, located in the Sierras Grandes, about 30 kilometers from Villa Carlos Paz, a plant that ceased operations in 1990. The lack of remediation activities on the premises where developed Uranium mining is open to the Ombudsman "a danger to the health of the population of a large area Punilla Valley."
Manufacturing Mining Complex operated until 1990 Giants exploiting the resource had been discovered by CNEA in the 60's. The exploration and production of uranium, was developed in the open and were made by a third party (Sánchez Bulk SA) between 1982 and 1989 through a concession contract.
deposited materials on the site, as a result of the holding queue are 2,400,000 tons, 1,000,000 tons of tailings and 600,000 tons of ore marginal. As a result of mining operations and mineral processing of uranium, environmental liabilities were generated consisting of sterile quarry, minerals marginal lines of mineral precipitation sludge and liquid effluents.
In 1986, after heavy rains, there was a significant fish kill and a green-gray river basin caused by the intentional discharge of sulfuric acid solutions used in the leaching of mineral. Today, whenever there is heavy storms, environmentalists fear that affect the filtration of the levees.
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| Ombudsman For Cordoba this represents an alarming environmental risk and contamination may be seeping into the stream which flows into El Cajon San Antonio River. Technicians conducted several inspections and advocacy found that is not performing remediation work. Mario Decara requested the intervention of the National Atomic Energy Commission, Nuclear Regulatory Authority and the Ministry of Environment of the Province. These uranium waste materials deposited in what was the Giants Manufacturing Mining Complex, located in Sierra Grande 30 km from the city of Villa Carlos Paz and closed in 1990. The lack of remediation activities on the premises where more than 20 years of uranium mining was taking place in the open, is for the Ombudsman in Cordoba a danger to the health of the inhabitants of a large area Punilla Valley. In uranium mineral holdings and industrial facilities for the treatment of this ore were once their useful lives, residual material in the technical jargon called "queue processing" or simply "tailings" and liquid effluents industrial processes. The tails of mineral, generally consist of finely divided material, like sand, which is taken as much as technically possible uranium. The materials deposited in what was the Complex, as a result of its operation are currently 2,400,000 tonnes of tailings, one million (1,000,000) tonnes of tailings and six hundred thousand (600,000) of marginal. To Decara is indispensable assistance from the competent bodies in this area, given the geographical characteristics of the location of this site and the radioactive waste in question and its proximity to tourist areas of high environmental value, which also contains the sources and reservoirs of major water basins in our province. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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