A new article in the Santiago Times describes multiple toxic spills at Anglo American’s Los Bronces mine in Chile. According to the article, a a truck transporting ammonium nitrate veered off the road near Santiago on March 28, spilling 20 tons of its toxic cargo just feet from a river feeding the Aguas Cordillera water treatment plant.

This incident was apparently not the first.  There have been numerous spills, including a spill in 2011 of 790 gallons of ammonium nitrate spilling into and contaminating a nearby creek.  The article quotes, “Since the arrival of Anglo American in 2000, it has become impossible to live here.”

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