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1. The MARN Confirms the presence of cyanide and iron in the San Sebastian River, La Unión
(Commerce Group)
The MARN confirms the presence of cyanide and iron in the San Sebastian River, La Unión This weekend the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (MARN) confirmed the presence of unhealthy levels ...
Created on 16 July 2012
2. Central American mayors reject mining exploitation that affects strategic river
(Cerro Blanco)
... water, and ecosystems "is irremediable and irreversible" due to the intensive use of large amounts of cyanide and arsenic to separate the gold from the rest of the removed material. In 14 years, according ...
Created on 12 June 2022
3. Central American mayors reject mining exploitation that affects strategic river
(Cerro Blanco)
... water, and ecosystems "is irremediable and irreversible" due to the intensive use of large amounts of cyanide and arsenic to separate the gold from the rest of the removed material. In 14 years, according ...
Created on 12 June 2022
4. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...
(Cerro Blanco)
... to a healthy environment and to the health of populations and the ecosystems, among others. 11. That open pit mining uses large amounts of cyanide, a highly toxic substance that allows gold to be recovered ...
Created on 12 June 2022
5. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... such as cyanide (a chemical that can kill a human being in quantities less than a grain of rice), mercury, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, lead, arsenic, cadmium, magnesium and other substances. According ...
Created on 14 December 2021
6. 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
7. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... with an appeal to his knowledge of the dangers of cyanide, which is used in gold-mining operations, based on a degree he had obtained in chemistry. How can poor countries and communities protect the ...
Created on 23 April 2021
8. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... activist upon hearing, in an initially tense meeting with the water defenders, that cyanide was being used to extract gold dust from the mountains. “Unbeknown to the water defenders,” Broad and Cavanagh ...
Created on 11 April 2021
9. Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption
(OceanaGold)
... mine,’’ said Chuck Sanders, who said he lives two miles away from the Haile site. “Having read over the last couple of years the different violations with mercury, cyanide, rat poison and so forth, I just ...
Created on 02 April 2021
10. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger
(OceanaGold)
The State Sammy A gold mine that is seeking to expand in Lancaster County has again drawn state scrutiny for violating environmental rules, this time over excessive discharges of cyanide, a potentially ...
Created on 30 March 2021
11. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
...  Gold mining uses toxic chemicals like cyanide that poison water. But a global mining company attempted to buy public support by launching flashy PR campaigns, funding local projects, and hiring expensive ...
Created on 28 March 2021
12. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... mining companies use cyanide to separate the gold from the rock. That cyanide then gets into the water. El Salvador is a very small country and El Salvador basically has one main river that supplies more ...
Created on 22 March 2021
13. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South
(Mining and Human Rights)
... government officials that heavy rains had caused water from a cyanide leaching pit to flood local communities and contaminate homes and farmland. Environmental authorities recommended an evacuation but ...
Created on 21 January 2021
14. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute
(Regional News)
... massive, cyanide-laden waste piles, are trying to squeeze the company for more benefits. Adding insult to injury, Milau went so far as to claim that the arsenic that has been found in the community’s water ...
Created on 28 November 2020
15. Mining Grabs Up Land, Deals Blow to Agriculture in Central America
(Background and reports )
... daily use, is vital for agriculture, and is affected by the presence of metallic minerals, like cyanide, all of which will alter food production." -- Julio González The villagers are fighting the El ...
Created on 07 May 2019
16. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court
(Regional News)
... industry and is considered to be one of the leading experts on the use of cyanide in the mining industry. “And you have no way of knowing what is in the concentrate, and neither does the Guatemalan government ...
Created on 27 August 2018
17. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador
(Commerce Group)
... by a permanent acid drainage leak, hundreds of tons of exposed rock debris mixed with cyanide and other highly toxic chemicals used in the process of lixiviation and two large metal containers filled more ...
Created on 07 May 2018
18. How El Salvador Won on Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... until the 1970s, when Commerce Group Corp. of Waukesha, Wisconsin, started operating the mine, turning the San Sebastián River waters orange from the chemicals, including cyanide, arsenic, and mercury, ...
Created on 07 May 2018
19. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... on these two victories? A Movement for Democracy, Human Rights, and the Environment The peril of gold mining is multi-fold: industrial mining requires cyanide to separate the gold from the surrounding ...
Created on 26 June 2017
20. El Salvador Passes Historic Law To Ban Metal Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... subterranean water is contaminated.” He added that mining companies’ use of toxic chemicals, primarily cyanide, “harms ecosystems, harms biodiversity, and contaminates the air and soil.” El Salvador is ...
Created on 16 April 2017
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