Yanacocha claims legal ownership of Máxima’s land while Máxima says she never sold any of her land to the company, and the land deeds bear her name
Often times they cheat people out of their land by making it difficult to read contracts, targetting the illiterate, amongst other things
women feel the negative impacts more
Extractivism spills over into other social issues
Yanacocha is the largest gold mine in Latin America and fourth largest in the world
Geography to consider
Yanacocha mine on the area’s water quality found traces of lead, arsenic, cyanide and mercury in the drinking water, linked to the rising rates of gastrointestinal cancer amongst residents of Cajamarca
toxic to the people
The largest source of gold supply, at approximately 2500 tonnes, came from mine production.