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Gold vs water: Argentina opens glaciers to mining but at what cost to world food supplies?
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Argentina has amended its Glacier Law to allow mining in previously protected glacier regions, raising concerns about environmental impacts and effects on global food supplies given Argentina's importance in agriculture.
Gold vs water: Argentina opens glaciers to mining but at what cost to world food supplies?
Beneath the shining white glaciers of the Andean mountains lie valuable deposits of gold, copper and molybdenum which, until recently, were off-limits to the mining companies that have set their eyes on these untapped minerals.
That could be about to change, after legislators in Argentina agreed to amend the Glacier Law that has prohibited all mining and exploration activities in the country’s glacier regions since 2010.
The legislation defined the country’s 16,000 glaciers – covering an area of
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