An Assessment of Mine Legacies and How to Prevent Them
Vladimir Pacheco Cueva
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An Assessment of Mine Legacies and How to Prevent Them

A Case Study from Latin America

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This book seeks to enrich the growing literature on mine legacies by examining a case study of a small abandoned mine in Latin America. Using a combination of Rapid Rural Appraisal and secondary source analysis, this study assessed some of the most damaging legacies of the San Sebastian mine in eastern El Salvador, compared the country's mine closure legislation against world's best practice standards and provided strategies for awareness, prevention and remediation.The most damaging legacy to the environment is that of Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) contamination of the local river. The impact of A...