Pitfalls and Pipelines - Philippine Indigenous Peoples Links

Glossary
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Glossary
Acid Mine Drainage
Alluvial mining
Artisanal mining
Block caving
Brownfield
Community
engagement
Conventional oil
Creditor
Dredge mining
Equity
Fracking
Greenfield
Indigenous peoples
The outflow of acidic water from mines (aka acid rock
drainage).
Mining from the sediment of rivers (aka placer mining, although
placer refers to beach sand and gravel mining).
Subsistence or smaller-scale mining, often part of the informal
labor sector (aka small-scale mining).
Automated underground mining where the ore is allowed to
collapse before being collected.
Land previously used for industrial purposes. In the case of
mining refers to the expansion or rehabilitation of mines.
A process in which a proponent builds and maintains
constructive relationships with local communities impacted
over the life of a project.
Petroleum produced from oil wells.
A person or institution to whom money is owed (those who lend
money to the company).
Mining with the use of dredges, and although you can get dry
dredging—for instance with minerals sands—it generally refers
to excavation from rivers, coastlines, wetlands or speciallyflooded
lagoons.
Financial ownership of a business by a shareholder.
Hydraulic fracturing is the propagation of fractures in a rock
layer, as a result of the action of a pressurized fluid (aka
hydraulic fracturing).
Land where there has been no previous development.
There is no agreed definition of indigenous peoples, with selfdefinition
being a key part. A working definition is to peoples
and nations who have a historical continuity with pre-invasion
and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories,
and consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the
societies now prevailing on those territories.