A pocket guide to Glencore, a UK-Swiss mining company with a toxic global footprint, and how you can support the resistance.
PERU // copper
COMMUNITY // Puerto Huarmey, a fishing town in the Ancash region.
MINE // Antamina, located in the Andean mountains, is one of the world's largest copper/zinc mines a joint venture of BHP, Glencore, Teck Resources and Mitsubishi Corporation.
STOLEN LIVELIHOODS // Waste water discharged into the forest of Huarmey depleting fish population.
PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS // Health impacts from heavy metal poisoning as a result of mining operations.
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Copper is the second most widely used material by the US Department of War and is crucial to the Al boom. Mining corporations have claimed the world will need to extract 700 million tonnes of copper in the next 20 years, "as much copper as humans have produced in a hundred thousand years of our history".