Claims Over Massive Mexico Acid Spill Advance Perla Trevizo - Arizona Daily Star
go to original November 2, 2015

Romeo Castro, a chemical biologist with the state of Sonora, takes samples that will be tested for contamination at the Arizpe Well #1 site near the Rio Bacanuchi. (Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star)

Legal actions regarding one of Mexico’s worst mining spills in recent history are moving forward.

...Under current law, a company can be sued in civil court, but the group wants to be able to file suit under an amparo, a Mexican legal proceeding that serves to guarantee constitutional rights. It argues that even though Grupo México is a private company, at the time of the spill it was acting as a government concessionaire.

...On Aug. 6, 2014, 11 million gallons of a copper-sulfate solution poured out of a containment pond at the Buenavista del Cobre mine — about 25 miles from the Arizona border — and polluted the Bacanuchi and Sonora rivers. It affected the livelihoods of more than 22,000 Sonorans. Buenavista del Cobre is a subsidiary of Grupo México, which also owns the Asarco mining company.

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