Mirage of El Dorado leads us into the mountains of northern Chile, where the devastating operations of Canadian mining companies threaten a fragile ecosystem in one of the driest parts of the globe. This « political cowboy flick» follows the pitched battle between a farming community in the Huasco valley and Canada’s mining giant Barrick Gold with its sidekick Noranda (now part of the Suisse corporation Xstrata). It’s a battle fought high in the Andes cordillera where farmers and local representatives fear the ravages of open pit mining operations in a place where a fragile system of glaciers feeds the rivers that flow into the farmlands built out of the advancing Atacama desert.
Genre: Documentary
Stars:
Crew: Martin Frigon (Director), Martin Frigon (Writer)
Country: Canada
Language: English, Français, Español
Studio: Productions Multi-Monde
Runtime: 1:47:31 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Oct 03, 2008
IMDb: 10
