RE: BIG troubles w/Glaciers in Los Azules: CEDHA N Silicon Investor threads recently posted on the McEwen Mining forum board put this topic into perspective.
https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28142281
Just read back several posts, to educate a poster who said: "”Folks, there are no glaciers at Los Azules, all you need to do is look at the pictures of the area on the corporate web site. If there were glaciers, you would see ice year round.“ Turns out there are BROWN glaciers as well as white ones as the excellent aerial photos portray. As the posts illustrate, there is a lot to be learned about what is at stake and it will be interesting to see what an eventual Environmental Assessment will show.
From what I gather, glacial melt due to global warming has impacted ecosystems all along the way to valley floors, and has had a 'sluice box effect' in faster delivery of toxic mining by-products to lower elevation watersheds.
Mining in glacial terrain has been controversial in neighbouring Peru over the past year as knowledge and dispute gains more mainstream awareness.
The topic has really heated up recently throughout the Americas in general as evidenced by the following 'boardreader' snapshot of the mention of 'glaciers' in the past 3 months.:
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This emerging and converging information from far and wide is not necessarily 'BIG trouble' but it does bring a new dawning in the way such mining will be conducted in future.