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Santo Domingo.- Members of the Xstrata Nickel Falcondo Mine Workers’ Union Tuesday morning visited Rafael Calderón, head of the Senate Committee that studies the bill to create Loma Miranda National Park, to request another visit of the area and provide some further information.

Union Finance secretary Rafy Bueno said some 1,400 Falcondo workers have been laid off, which in his view has rocked the economic foundation of the town Bonao, with losses of payroll as high as 40 million pesos.

Read more at: http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2014/4/1/51048/Xstrata-Nickel-workers-ask-senators-to-revisit-planned-mine-site