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Can you find Peru on a world map? Hurry. The city of Cerro de Pasco, Peru, is being swallowed by ever-expanding, open-pit zinc and lead mine. A colonial church dating back to 1748 has disappeared, along with the town's center square.
You can see the shocking, Sarlacc-like situation from satellite images, notes the Google Earth Blog.
There's a mile-wide gash in the earth that grows almost daily, with each dynamite blast, The AP reports. The Peruvian government is pushing to extract vast mineral and oil reserves from the city of 70,000, and Cerro de Pasco is caught between environmental degradation and jobs. The mine owner, Volcan Compania Minera S.A., had threatened to close the mine, and bury 4,000 jobs, before the government gave the company permission to take more of the town, including the historic church and center square.
to be honest.. it didn't seem that nice to begin with
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http://maps.google.c…georgesIII - link to original article please.sequoia
- its from treehugger but whateverCALLES
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