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1. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... of fresh water due to its release of acid mine drainage.” Organized around the slogan “Water is more important than gold,” activists succeeded in getting the mining ban passed and thereby ensured the ecological ...
Created on 06 April 2023
2. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... State to implement the law. In particular, the report points to a government´s debt with communities affected by mining: they still face the impacts of acid drainage in abandoned mines, there has not been ...
Created on 29 June 2021
3. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business
(Mining and Human Rights)
... deemed not “pertinent”. Shareholders asked if Pan American Silver would take responsibility for acid drainage and other tailings dam risks at the Quiruvilca mine in La Libertad, Peru. Pan American ...
Created on 17 May 2021
4. National Roundtable against Metal Mining Demands technical closure of mines and compensation for environmental damage
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... the closure procedures for the mines have not initiated. Consequently, acid drainage (a toxic mix resulting form the gold extraction process) still spills and contaminates rivers as explained by the members ...
Created on 18 September 2019
5. National Roundtable against Metal Mining demands president Nayib Bukele to order the implementation of the Metal Mining Ban
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... Lima, La Unión, need to be addressed and resolved. The members of the National Roundtable against Metal Mining assured that the river in San Sebastián community, has been contaminated with acid drainage. ...
Created on 16 September 2019
6. THE STRUGGLE FOR GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE CONTINUES IN EL SALVADOR
(Water Crisis El Salvador)
... Water Law. A local community member looks at the San Sebastian river contaminated by acid drainage left behind by US based Commerce Group mining. Photo: International Allies From a business perspective, ...
Created on 27 August 2018
7. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador
(Commerce Group)
... suspended an exploitation permit extended to the company and asked for an environmental remediation plan to deal with a permanent leak of acid drainage that affected the local river and underground water ...
Created on 07 May 2018
8. How El Salvador Won on Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... organized a letter-writing and phone campaign to pressure the company to withdraw from the lawsuit. They spilled orange salad dressing, symbolizing the mine’s acid drainage. A delegation from ...
Created on 07 May 2018
9. Mining company continues lobbying efforts to repeal Anti-Mining Law
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... the country in its favor" said Belloso. Also, concerns were expressed about the presence of acid drainage in the San Sebastián River in Santa Rosa de Lima, department of La Unión (in the east of El Salvador). ...
Created on 14 November 2017
10. Commerce Group Mining Corporation required to pay for environmental clean up of the San Sebastian mine.
(Commerce Group)
... remediation of acid drainage resulting from their activities in the area. The San Sebastian mine was abandoned by Commerce Group Corporation (CGC), a mining company based in Wisconsin, US, after the Ministry ...
Created on 02 March 2016
11. Resistance against the bloodsucker
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... oxygen, still active within the empty tunnels, release metals such as Cadmium, Lead, Copper, and Iron from the rocks, and then leak them out into the river. Scientists call the red mine-sauce “acid drainage”. ...
Created on 03 January 2016
12. El Salvador: Vote Against Gold
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... the mine, scientifically described as “acid mine drainage”. When the river overflows, the fields get flooded with this poison, which leaves behind the heavy metals, Lead and Cadmium – this was recently ...
Created on 02 January 2016
13. The negative legacy of mining in El Salvador continues after 100 years
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... plant because of mining. The most complex abandoned site was found to be the San Sebastian mine in Santa Rosa de Lima,  La Union, where the population are facing the consequences of acid drainage that ...
Created on 11 November 2015
14. El Salvador, violence and impunity
(Mining and Human Rights)
... earlier operations played a role in swinging public opinion against mining: The Rio San Sebastian which flows from the site is laced with cyanide and affected by acid mine drainage — a process in which ...
Created on 13 February 2014
15. Members of Congress urge El Salvador to protect environment and communities from mining
(Background and reports )
... deficiency of fresh water due to its release of acid mine drainage, which has serious effects on the environment. The country is also being sued in an international trade tribunal by Canadian mining ...
Created on 27 November 2013
16. Members of Congress urge El Salvador to protect environment and communities from mining
(Background and reports )
... of fresh water due to its release of acid mine drainage, which has serious effects on the environment. The country is also being sued in an international trade tribunal by Canadian mining company Pacific ...
Created on 27 November 2013
17. About mining in El Salvador
(Water no Gold)
... where mining operations are located. The community of San Sebastian, where US Corporation Commerce Group has its operations, is currently enduring the long term health impacts of acid drainage leaching ...
Created on 06 November 2013
18. Buzzwords:Responsible Mining
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... process (typically cyanide used to separate gold from the rock), the toxins released by the mining (for example, arsenic is often released in El Salvador and elsewhere) as well as overall "acid-rock drainage", ...
Created on 22 September 2013
19. The Rights Clash
(Commerce Group)
... Sebastian mine. In 1977, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based mining company called Commerce Group closed its operations there. In the years since, bedrock exposed during mining caused acid drainage, which has ...
Created on 15 July 2013
20. Chalk Up Another Victory for "Free Trade": Mining Companies Sue El Salvado
(2013 Fact Finding Mission)
... drainage from large-scale gold mining,” with cyanide at nine times the accepted level. The National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador has cited these examples of environmental degradation, ...
Created on 08 July 2013
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