Marinduque Oxfam Australia Photos

1. Marinduque

2. The Tapian Pit, Marcopper mine on Marinduque Island
in the Philippines in 1989
Photograph by Catherine Coumans/MiningWatch Canada
Slide 1

3. Pipes from the Marcopper mine pumping mine waste tailings
into Calancan Bay at surface level in 1989
Photograph by Catherine Coumans/MiningWatch Canada
Slide 2

4. Fishermen pass the
seven kilometre
long causeway of
mine tailings
dumped from
Marcopper mine
into Calancan Bay
Photograph by David Slide 3
Sproule/Oxfam Australia

5. Joel (8) and Edilon (6)
Frondoza at
Botilao, Calancan
Bay, where locals
fear that the fish
they eat is
contaminated with
heavy metals from
mine waste
dumped into the
bay Slide 4

6. Students at Botilao School, Calancan Bay, where lead levels
in the air were found to be double the Philippines
Environmental Protection Agency’s standard
Photograph by David Sproule/Oxfam Australia
Slide 5

7. Eleven year old
Michael Permjo
with his playmate,
Jay Villaruel, both
from Calancan Bay.
The sores on
Michael’s legs are
commonplace –
local people
attribute them to
heavy metal
poisoning Slide 6

8. Seven year old Jason
Peregrn with his
mother Rosalina at
the health centre at
Calancan Bay
Photograph by David Sproule/
Oxfam Australia Slide 7

9. Wilson Manuba, with
his family. This
Calancan Bay
fisherman had his
leg amputated due
to arsenic
poisoning
Photograph by David Sproule/Oxfam Slide 8
Australia

10. Illness spans generations: Wilson Manuba and his father
Pedro – both Calancan Bay fishermen are suffering from
severe arsenic poisoning
Photograph by Ingrid Macdonald/Oxfam Australia
Slide 9

11. Sonny Boy Mataya
from Bocboc,
Mogpog stands in
front of millions of
tonnes of mine
waste that sit above
the Maguila-Guila
dam on the Mogpog
River. The dam has
been poorly
maintained and
locals live in fear of
a repeat disaster
Photograph by Ingrid Macdonald/ Slide 10

12. Two of Marites Tagle’s
daughters were
killed when the
Maguila-Guila dam
collapsed, sending
tonnes of toxic silt
down the Mogpog
River
Photograph by Ingrid Macdonald/
Slide 11
Oxfam Australia

13. A local man living
downstream on the
Mogpog River
points to mine
tailings that have
covered his fields
since the Maguila-
Guila dam collapse
in 1993
Photograph by Ingrid Macdonald/ Slide 12

14. The Mogpog River, Marinduque Island. The red/orange colour
and Oxfam’s scientific studies indicate acid mine drainage
and contamination by heavy metals
Photograph by David Sproule/Oxfam Australia
Slide 13

15. “They don’t hurt as much now, but still there is pain.”
Tomas Gutierrez (82) displays his scarred legs from his
bed at home in Malusak, Mogpog. He blames his continual
skin diseases and health problems on pollution from the 1993
Mogpog River dam collapse
Photograph by David Sproule/Oxfam Australia Slide 14

16. This woman crosses the Mogpog River every day. She
says that her rash is caused by pollution in the river
Photograph by David Sproule/Oxfam Australia
Slide 15

17. Bags of mine waste tailings decomposing in the bright
green/blue Boac River in March 2004
Photograph by Ingrid Macdonald/Oxfam Australia
Slide 16

18. Animals drink water
from the Boac River
– local people say
the river is
contaminated with
toxic mine waste
Photograph by Ingrid Macdonald/ Slide 17

19. Bags full of contaminated tailings waste away on the banks of
the Boac River – home to hundreds of people
Photograph by David Sproule/Oxfam Australia
Slide 18

20. Eliza Hernandez
washes clothes at
Barangay
Balingbing, in the
Boac River
She blames the rashes
and sores on her
body on
contamination from
the Boac disaster Slide 19
Photograph by David Sproule/Oxfam

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