
Well, such a town does exist, and the above scenario did occur. The name of the town is Marmato, located in the northwest region of Colombia, South America. The mining company is the Canadian-based company, Gran Colombia, which primary focus is Colombia. It is apparently bent on getting its way, and, as is usually the case with big companies muscling their way into underdeveloped foreign countries and devouring their natural resources, is pressing forward relentlessly with resettlement and mining operations in Marmato. Of course, if it succeeds (and there seems to be nothing stopping its efforts) it will continue it plunder of that country's resources (with politicians' complicity of course) and will leave in its wake tremendous loss of vegetation and wild habit, alterations in water run-off, leaching of toxic materials from left-over waste material, extremely poor air quality, and an end to the small-scale mining that had sustained the town's miners and their families for generations. When is this kind of sh*# going to end?!
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