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Choropampa : the price of gold = el precio del oro / Guarango Film and Video presents ; produced and directed by Ernesto Cabellos, Stephanie Boyd.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Minera Yanacocha S.A.
- Newmont Mining Corporation.
- Gold mines and mining--Environmental aspects--Peru--Choropampa.
- Gold mines and mining.
- Mercury wastes--Environmental aspects--Peru--Choropampa.
- Mercury wastes.
- Mercury--Health aspects--Peru--Choropampa.
- Mercury.
- Mercury--Health aspects.
- Mercury wastes--Environmental aspects.
- Gold mines and mining--Environmental aspects.
- Choropampa (Peru).
- Peru.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (75 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Price of gold
- Precio del oro
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English and Spanish with English and Spanish subtitles.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- On June 2, 2000, 151 kilograms of liquid mercury spilled from a truck hauling the mercury away from the Yanacocha goldmine in the Peruvian Andes. The spill covered a 25-mile long area, contaminating the small mountain villages Choropampa, San Juan, and Magdalena. The owners of the mine, a Peruvian company, the World Bank, and the Newmont Mining Corp. of Colorado, claim that the problem was quickly resolved, but hundreds of people still suffer the ill effects. This video details the legal battles of the people of Choropampa to get proper medical care and compensation for the damage done to the town and its economy and "exposes the global gold trade's nasty underbelly."
- Credits:
- Camera, Ernesto Cabellos ; edited by Ernesto Cabellos, Stephanie Boyd.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Guarango Film and Video, ©2002; previously released in 2003.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 13, 2019).
- Publisher Number:
- if-cho Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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