... Study has not been approved by the Ministry of the Environment of Guatemala.
10. That, open pit mining means the removal of the surface layer of the earth to make mineral deposits accessible and therefore ...
... 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 ...
... with the objective of authorizing, regulating and supervising the operations of mining activities. The new law does not distinguish between metallic and non-metallic mining but refers only to mineral ...
... an effort to provide incentives for artisanal miners to convert to more sustainable occupations, reparations for families that were victims of mining violence have not been issued, no efforts have been ...
Minería Panamericana
Anglo American mining company has filed a lawsuit against a ban preventing Colombian coal miner Cerrejón from developing its La Puente project.
The latest lawsuit comes after Cerrejón ...
... KCA’s assets.
May 21, 2021 police action. Credit: Peaceful Resistance La Puya.
The company’s assets were frozen in mid-2016 for illegal mineral extraction after it defied a court decision in late ...
... 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 ...
... coordinator of Kalikasan PNE, also feared that the new mining order would lead to the “doubling, if not tripling, of environmental disasters and human rights violations in mineral-rich areas” across the ...
... their camp.
To the General Public, The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya states:
1. The company: The mineral exploitation license for Exploraciones Mineras de Guatemala, EXMINGUA S.A. was suspended through ...
... explains: “[On May 21] the immobilization, which had been legally imposed [by the Supreme Court] in 2016, [was] officially lifted. Although, this does not mean that the miner can restart operating activities.” ...
... changing company names and using proxies and fronts,” other industry players have been identified.
TVI Pacific Inc., Besra Gold Inc. (formerly Olympus Pacific Minerals), and ExGen Resources Inc. (formerly ...
... Silver is not currently extracting minerals at the Escobal mine, it continues to operate in Xinka communities. According to its 2019 Sustainability Report, the company is “engaging with community leaders, ...
... has reneged on pledges to regulate them and end the abuses
Canada is home to 75 percent of the world’s mining companies. Firms based or listed in Canada operate approximately four thousand mineral projects ...
... who have opposed the mine have been killed, putting its owner, Inversiones Los Pinares, at the centre of a deadly environmental conflict in the mineral-rich Bajo Aguán region. Local communities are concerned ...
... millions out of work.
The Philippines is one of the world's biggest suppliers of nickel ore and is also rich in copper and gold, but Duterte said less than five percent of the country's mineral reserves ...
Manila Bulletin
Madelaine B. Miraflor
Australian-Canadian miner OceanaGold Corporation (OceanaGold) and the Philippine government are now finalizing the terms of their updated Financial and Technical ...
... and powerful Western corporations set their sights on these lands, or the minerals beneath them, local people standing in their way frequently find themselves bulldozed. In the era of climate catastrophe, ...
... GDP, 95% of Peruvian GDP and two-thirds of Colombia’s GDP for that year. The company is seeking to jump on the bandwagon of the energy transition: limiting coal extraction and focusing on transition minerals ...
... multinational miner” and that it had the strong endorsement of residents in local communities in and around the mine, including Indigenous people.
In fact, the mine is strongly opposed by local communities ...
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A long stretch of conveyor belt transport nickel ores to mineral processing plant within the Taganito Mining Corporation (TMC) site in Surigao del Norte province, February 2016. Image by Ryan Dael of ...