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21. Report: OceanaGold in the Philippines
(Background and reports )
... an Australian-Canadian company, is one of dozens of transnational mining companies in the Philippines that have been reaping profits by mining gold, silver, copper, and other minerals. Its underground ...
Created on 05 September 2019
22. Global protest launched against OceanaGold mine in the Philippines
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... by Oceanagold. Company data revealed that some 87 billion pesos worth of copper, gold, and silver were mined by Oceanagold from 2013 to 2018, while only 4.7 billion pesos or only 5.4% were provided in ...
Created on 02 September 2019
23. Mining Grabs Up Land, Deals Blow to Agriculture in Central America
(Background and reports )
Edgardo Ayala - IPS The installations of the silver mine located in the rural municipality of San Rafael Las Flores, in Guatemala, have been closed since 2017, as the result of a Constitutional Court ...
Created on 07 May 2019
24. The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya fights for the right to water
(Regional News)
... shows that the gold and silver are contained in arsenopyrite rock, which contains high levels of arsenic. Levels of arsenic in the water increased considerably during the time the mine was in operation." ...
Created on 03 May 2019
25. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment
(FTAs & ISDS)
... with tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in suits related to gold and silver projects that communities have spent many years fighting, facing criminalization and threats to defend their water, health, ...
Created on 03 May 2019
26. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala
(Cerro Blanco)
... and silver and to have more millions (of dollars) than they already have," he said. According to estimates presented by Bluestone, the deposit could produce 1.24 million ounces of gold and 4.47 million ...
Created on 03 May 2019
27. Guatemalan court upholds Tahoe mine suspension
(Regional News)
By Sandra Cuffe: CIM Magazine Tahoe Resources’ fiercely contested Escobal silver mine in Guatemala will remain idled for the time being. Members of the regional mining resistance movement inspect ...
Created on 16 September 2018
28. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru
(Regional News)
... to mine 63 million ounces of silver over 11 years from 2012.   When news of the proposed mine reached the local population in 2008, there was an almost complete rejection of the project due to the high ...
Created on 28 August 2018
29. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court
(Regional News)
... of gold and silver from the mine that the company was illegally exporting, as well as a number of Mayan artifacts that the company had presumably uncovered at the mining site. The firm and its owners could ...
Created on 27 August 2018
30. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
Andrés McKinley - UK LAB On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...
Created on 22 June 2018
31. How El Salvador Won on Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
Esty DInur - The Progressive In March 2017, El Salvador, a country with deposits of gold and silver, became the first and only country in the world to ban all metallic mining. The process took twelve ...
Created on 07 May 2018
32. Lack of proposals from political candidates on the Environmental Crisis in El Salvador
(Media Releases)
...  In 2018 the panorama would have been even worse, if El Salvador had given into the pretensions of transnational mining companies to exploit gold and silver in the northern part of the country. Given ...
Created on 08 February 2018
33. In El Salvador, a moment more precious than gold
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... wanted to mine gold and silver in the country's most important watersheds. The underlying reason for the long and radical resistance to metallic mining is the threat this industry represents to El Salvador' ...
Created on 26 June 2017
34. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... Silver aimed to mine the rich hills in the state of Chalatenango in the north of the country. Its plans would have swept up communities similar to Cinquera, but community resistance forced the company ...
Created on 26 June 2017
35. In El Salvador, OceanaGold Must ‘Pay Up and Pack Up’
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... Mining first obtained concessions to explore for gold and silver in the northern department of Cabañas, El Salvador in 2002 and submitted applications for an environmental and exploitation permits in 2004. ...
Created on 03 March 2017
36. Transnational mining company loses the battle, but the war continues.
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... exploratory projects had been approved for 11 foreign companies, which planned to extract some 12 million ounces of gold and 78 of silver in total. They planned to use about 22 million liters of water, ...
Created on 05 January 2017
37. PRESS RELEASE: Permanent Alert against Metallic Mining in El Salvador
(Media Releases)
... any possibility to the extraction of metals in the country, definitively prohibiting the exploration and exploitation of gold and silver, among other metals of the Salvadoran subsoil.  For this reason ...
Created on 04 January 2017
38. Mining company delays complying with the ruling and reaches out to the government of Sanchez Ceren
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... in an attempt to obtain permission to exploit gold and silver in Cabañas.   Luis Parada, head of the defense team for the Salvadoran State, acknowledges that he has heard about these company meetings ...
Created on 28 December 2016
39. PRESS RELEASE: Not to the blackmail of Pacific Rim Mining/Oceana Gold
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... at the ICSID; and to allow the exploitation of gold and silver in San Isidro, Cabañas. It is also known that the company has sought the approval of metal mining in the country by lobbying senior state ...
Created on 26 September 2016
40. Yes to life, no to mining! – Report Back Delegation to El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... Au Martinique wants to mine gold and other metals such as uranium. The government had given an exploration permit to the Canadian mining company, which today goes under the name of Aura Silver Resources, ...
Created on 03 February 2016
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