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1. El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... brakes on a modern day ‘gold rush’,” MiningWatch Canada wrote in a statement Thursday. The Central American nation is the first country in the world to ban mining for gold and other metals, according to ...; Created on 16 April 2017
2. Metals mining and Sustainable Development in Central America: An Assessment of benefits and costs: (General mining reports ); Oxfam This assessment conducted by Oxfam discusses the social, environmental and economic costs of metals mining in Central America. The prices of metals are very unstable and mining practices produce ...; Created on 23 April 2016
3. Dirty Metals: Mining, Communities and the Environment: (General Environment Backrounders); ... well as developing health issues from the exposure to hazardous chemicals. The mining industry violates human rights by negatively influencing the health, society and well-being of communities. https://www.earthworksaction.org/files/publications/NDG_DirtyMetalsReport_HR.pdf ...; Created on 23 April 2016
4. International community calls for release of El Salvador antimining activists: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the five men helped lead a campaign to ban metals mining in 2017 and protect El Salvador’s primary source of clean water, the Lempa River Basin. The countrywide ban was the first of its kind anywhere in ...; Created on 20 December 2023
5. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); The Guardian Nina Lakhani Activists worry the arrests are a move by the cash-strapped government to open the country to now banned metals mining Five prominent environmental defenders who played a crucial ...; Created on 04 April 2023
6. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Mongabay Maxwell Radin El Salvador banned all mining of metals in 2017, but environmentalists are concerned that the government is preparing to reverse the decision and bring in international investment. The ...; Created on 03 April 2023
7. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... on Metals Mining, a coalition the arrested men helped build, with its annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award. The collective demand that Bukele's government "drop the charges against the five water ...; Created on 20 January 2023
8. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Development (IGF), an organization of Canadian origin that promotes best practices of mining in its member countries. According to policy statements ...; Created on 16 December 2021
9. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of over 50 countries promoting mining called the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Metals and Sustainable Development and based in Ottawa, Canada. Two participants in the Forum, and members of the board ...; Created on 14 December 2021
10. Peru miners fall amid uncertainty over tight presidential election: (Mining and Human Rights); ... for miners and likely reduce the production of metals such as copper in a boost to metal prices. Volcan and Cerro Verde were among the worst performers on the S&P / BVL Peru General Index in Monday afternoon ...; Created on 08 June 2021
11. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... River is now dead thanks to Ivanhoe and Lepanto,” he said. He added that tailings from the mine disposed into the river have had a harmful impact on fish, and heavy metals have poisoned agricultural lands. ...; Created on 12 May 2021
12. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... forward with a highly contentious gold mine in one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. According to Rosana Miranda of the São Paulo–based Amazon Watch, the company’s use of heavy metals and cyanide ...; Created on 07 May 2021
13. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... not only to block Pacific Rim’s mine but to impose a nationwide ban on metals mining. Even as they grieved, they set aside their historical enmity with rightist parties that were linked to their own community’s ...; Created on 23 April 2021
14. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... with metals in their blood in Peru; and outsourcing, child and labor, and a million-dollar lawsuit under an Investor-State Dispute Arbitration (ISDS) case in Bolivia. Glencore is one of the world’s largest ...; Created on 22 April 2021
15. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... also achieved something unprecedented, something remarkable: a national ban on metals mining. What then does the term “ordinary” do here? The answer lies, I think, in asides that Broad and Cavanagh make, ...; Created on 11 April 2021
16. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to ban all metals mining to save their rivers. Today the United States faces a similar reckoning as El Salvador. The Texas freeze that left millions without water exposed the desperate need to rein ...; Created on 28 March 2021
17. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town: (OceanaGold); ... the people of that community, who trusted that the gold mine would be operated and run and monitored safely, are now suffering — or will suffer — the long term impacts of heavy metals like mercury in their ...; Created on 12 February 2021
18. Puno: An indefinite strike announced due to mining contamination in the Coata River: (Regional News); ... found heavy metals in the water, fecal coliforms. And now, arsenic and mercury have been confirmed in the bodies of our brothers who are sick and confined to their beds," said Feliz Suasaca, a health and ...; Created on 28 December 2020
19. 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
20. 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

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