A factory hangs on the cliff, lost in the splendor of Cape Corsica. All around, the rock is scratched and gray. The ostensible heritage of the Canari mine, an old open-cast asbestos mining operation closed in 1965. Its fifteen years of full operation generated millions of tonnes of mining waste. They were washed into the sea and returned to shore as black sand beaches. Those of Albo and Nonza, bathed by a turquoise sea, are among the most “Instagrammed” in France. A photogenic produced by an ignored ecological disaster, which conceals another secret.
Article from our n°67 “Rural resistance”, available on newsstands, in bookstores and in our store.
Last November, a man filmed himself on the lunar beach of Nonza. In his hand he holds a sort of large magnet which he plunges into the sand. A bristling mass of metallic powder instantly clings to it. The man is a consultant for Aurania Resources, a Canadian mineral exploration company. His video, published on the company’s YouTube channel, announces: “Aurania makes a huge discovery in Corsica.» This mining waste transformed into a beach would contain a significant reserve of nickel, a metal classified “critical” by the European Union.
In other words, considered essential to the functioning of society and economic life. Two weeks…
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