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1. In Mining-Affected Communities, Water Is Becoming More Precious Than Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... are increasingly casting their gaze, as a clear declaration by mining-affected communities that water is more precious than gold. It was in the northern department of Cabañas, where safe water supplies ...; Created on 26 June 2017
2. In El Salvador, a moment more precious than gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... affection. He was the centerpiece of the most amazing and magical week I can remember in 12 long years of arduous struggle. It was a brief moment in time, more precious than gold. [Andrés McKinley is ...; Created on 26 June 2017
3. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... government has created a new agency to oversee extractive industries and begun looking into international agreements that facilitate investment in precious metals. Five “water defenders,” who have spent ...; Created on 03 April 2023
4. Green group supports ban on open-pit mining, protection of 'no mining zones: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... a country rich in precious minerals. In a position paper read at a hearing of a panel of the House of Representatives Wednesday, Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment called for the urgent passage ...; Created on 27 May 2021
5. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... mainly by nickel demand from China and a high gold price. The precious metal peaked at $2,000 per ounce last August and is expected to average at $1,700 this year as investors seek out a safe-haven asset. ...; Created on 15 April 2021
6. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... in the world to ban mining to save its precious rivers. Their battle cries: “Water, not gold” and “Water for life.” In the process of their 13-year fight, these water defenders organized a national coalition ...; Created on 05 April 2021
7. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... The Haile Gold Mine, the subject of a hearing Thursday night about the proposed expansion, is seeking to dig up more land and process more of the precious metal as the price of gold has risen. The expansion ...; Created on 30 March 2021
8. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... than 50% of the water to the country. And for them, as for water defenders, in many other countries, water is life. Water is more precious than gold. So a group of water defenders from all over the country ...; Created on 22 March 2021
9. EL SALVADOR - Water recognized as a public good and human right, the satisfaction of the Church: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... good. In El Salvador, the Church has always been a protagonist in calling for a fair law for the distribution and management of this precious resource of water. President Nayib Bukele stressed this when ...; Created on 30 November 2020
10. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... kilometre from the Los Filos mine’s massive heap leach pad, onto which Equinox sprays a cyanide solution to extract precious metals from crushed ore. Since the mine went into operation in 2008, the community’s ...; Created on 28 November 2020
11. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... municipality of Eduardo Neri, in the center of the state of Guerrero, Mexico. These lands are located in an area that enjoys a peculiar and abundant wealth of precious metals. "The territory is crossed ...; Created on 09 August 2020
12. US mining company demands $3.5 billion dollars from the Mexican government for stopping project: (FTAs & ISDS); ... sold a portion of the company for $21 million to Monaco Financial, a US firm dedicated to the commercialization of rare coins and precious metal products, and Mark Gordon, director of Odyssey, pointed ...; Created on 24 September 2019
13. Canadian mining companies are behaving badly in the Global South—and Wall Street is profiting from it: (FTAs & ISDS); ... Court to protect wetlands that are the source of the country’s precious freshwater have triggered a spate of ISDS claims under the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. These, and similar cases, have sparked ...; Created on 05 May 2019
14. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala: (Cerro Blanco); ... precious metals, it is removing thermal waters from the tunnels, with high arsenic contents. "They do not care about anything that happens in our villages, they are only interested in taking the gold ...; Created on 03 May 2019
15. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court: (Regional News); ... their precious land and water. Furthermore, the project in the municipality of San Pedro Ayampuc there exist 18 permits for exploration alone. The communities had seen the environmental damage that the ...; Created on 27 August 2018
16. Salvadorans Reinforce Commitment to Sustain Historic Mining Ban on its First Anniversary: (Media Releases); ... Against Metallic Mining are reaffirming their commitment to ensure the small Central American country continues to be an example to the world in the defence of precious water supplies. They are also warning ...; Created on 06 May 2018
17. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... by government and local academic institutions, but also by international bodies such as the UN”. For Jen Moore, connecting the idea of “water being more precious than gold”…..and “the unjust means that ...; Created on 23 June 2017
18. PRESS RELEASE: OceanaGold, “the gold mining company of choice”? Not in El Salvador or the Philippines: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... legislature made history and passed a ban on all metallic mining nationwide, bringing to fruition a twelve-year-long demand of mining-affected communities and civil society concerned about their precious ...; Created on 23 June 2017
19. Western University Professor Brings El Salvador Anti-Mining Struggle to Canadian Audience: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and Salvadoran efforts to protect precious water resources from transnational mining companies. Having just returned from overseeing an international delegation in El Salvador herself, Grzyb was able to ...; Created on 08 March 2017
20. Mining company delays complying with the ruling and reaches out to the government of Sanchez Ceren: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... grant permits for the exploration or extraction of precious metals during his mandate) at a meeting occurred at the Presidential House on August 25. "Oceana Gold should already be complying with the court' ...; Created on 28 December 2016

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