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1. Cerro Blanco
(Category)
Created on 28 February 2013
2. Reactivation of Cerro Blanco Mining Project
(Mining and Human Rights)
... Blanco mining project in Jutiapa, and its re-opening by Bluestone Resources. The OIE was created with the intention of contributing data on the extractive industry in Guatemala from an independent perspective. ...
Created on 06 May 2021
3. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine
(Cerro Blanco)
YSUCA The Cerro Blanco mine is located just 15 kilometres from the border with El Salvador, in the municipality of Asunción Mita in the department of Jutiapa, Guatemala. Since 2006, the project has posed ...
Created on 21 April 2020
4. Study reveals the threats of the Cerro Blanco mine
(Cerro Blanco)
ACAFREMIN Cerro Blanco a mining project operated by Canadian company bluestone resources is located in the municipality of Asunción Mita, Guatemala. The Cerro Blanco mine could endanger the lives of more ...
Created on 26 December 2019
5. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala
(Cerro Blanco)
... and financial machinery to restart operations at the Cerro Blanco mine, there is still a veil of secrecy and silence in the surrounding communities located near the megaproject. Worker guards the entrance ...
Created on 03 May 2019
6. Informe Especial sobre el Proyecto Minero “Cerro Blanco” y las Potenciales Vulneraciones a Derechos Humanos en la Población Salvadoreña
(Human Rights)
Oscar Humberto Luna The Cerro Blanco mining project in Guatemala is a threat to El Salvador’s water quality and quantity. This report describes possible human rights violations that may impact the Salvadoran ...
Created on 30 April 2016
7. National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining on the temporary suspension the Cerro Blanco mining project
(Media Releases)
Given the recent announcement by Goldcorp Inc. on the indefinite suspension of the Cerro Blanco mining project, the most advanced project in the border of El Salvador and Guatemala, the National Roundtable ...
Created on 04 August 2013
8. Governments of Guatemala and El Salvador forced to respond to community concerns regarding the Cerro Blanco mining project
(Cerro Blanco)
... Salvador to deliver a letter addressed to Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina to express concerns related to the Cerro Blanco mining project in the border with El Salvador.   The letter delivered ...
Created on 28 February 2013
9. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats
(Regional News)
... against Ecuador for $480 million over the suspension of the Rio Blanco mining project. Local communities achieved the suspension of this underground gold and silver mine in the highlands of south-central ...
Created on 03 May 2020
10. Marcelo's Legacy: The environmentalist who fought against metal mining in El Salvado
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... activities of those countries do not harm our environment.  The Cerro Blanco project, owned by Canadian  company Bluestone Resources, is already operating with dubious permits in Guatemala, the main concern ...
Created on 18 September 2019
11. Mining Grabs Up Land, Deals Blow to Agriculture in Central America
(Background and reports )
...  For example, the Cerro Blanco mine, located in the Guatemalan municipality of Asunción Mita, bordering on western El Salvador, is part of the Ostua-Guija-Lempa basin. The pollution generated by the ...
Created on 07 May 2019
12. Archbishop of El Salvador reinforces the church´s position against mining
(Mining and Human Rights)
... lethal, they will pollute our aquifers. We are already threatened with the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala, if it becomes exploited it will contaminate Lake Güija and by extension the Lempa river would ...
Created on 17 September 2016
13. Archbishop of El Salvador reinforces the church´s position against mining
(Mining and Human Rights)
... lethal, they will pollute our aquifers. We are already threatened with the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala, if it becomes exploited it will contaminate Lake Güija and by extension the Lempa river would ...
Created on 17 September 2016
14. Yes to life, no to mining! – Report Back Delegation to El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... banks women wash, and kids bath. Behind a bridge we get off the bus and meet Gustavo Blanco, a community leader. He demands from the state and the company remediation of damages caused by mining. “They ...
Created on 03 February 2016
15. Resistance against the bloodsucker
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... due to lost profits Water is not supposed to be orange, not even in El Salvador. But, in the town of San Sebastian, in the Eastern part of the small Central American country, it is. Gustavo Blanco uses ...
Created on 03 January 2016
16. El Salvador: Vote Against Gold
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... out the mine. Gustavo Blanco’s dad used to work in the mine: “Companies here have extracted gold for a value of about 25 million dollars”, the 58-year-old man calculates. “The only things that are left ...
Created on 02 January 2016
17. Preliminary program
(2014 International Delegation)
... discuss the impact of the Cerro Blanco Mine in El Salvador. Days six and seven:   Participate as international observers in a community consultation process in Chalatenango. Day eight: Press ...
Created on 07 August 2014
18. Sanches Ceren will prevent mining in the Trifinio región.
(Cerro Blanco)
... Salvador Sanchez Ceren was emphatic in his statement that he will advocate for the suspension of all mining activity in the Trifinio Reserve area, alluding to the Cerro Blanco mining project located in ...
Created on 04 March 2014
19. El Salvador, violence and impunity
(Mining and Human Rights)
... river on which El Salvador depends for 60% of its drinking water. Guatemala has allowed construction of the Cerro Blanco mine within the reserve despite opposition from Honduras and from the Salvadoran ...
Created on 13 February 2014
20. July 22, 2013 Global Day of Action Against Open Pit Mining: The National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining reiterates demand for legislation prohibiting metal mining in El Salvador
(Media Releases)
... moral force the Salvadoran government to require Guatemala and Honduras to suspend mining projects located at the borders. Projects such as the Cerro Blanco mine threatens to contaminate the Trifinio ...
Created on 22 July 2013
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