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1. 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
2. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Commerce Group); ... El Salvador’s volatile political environment and the government´s limited capacity to transform the economy of artisanal miners, a tiny but complex and vocal sub-sector of the mining industry, has many ...; Created on 07 May 2018
3. El Salvador suffers Australia's maleficent miner: (Water no Gold); By: Andrew Hamilton First published in: http://eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=38560#.Up3TGSemZyp In Australia, as elsewhere, the main business of mining companies is to find and seize opportunities ...; Created on 03 December 2013
4. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... 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 ...; Created on 29 June 2021
5. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... protected from miners and developers. Toothless Watchdog All over the world, Canadian-run mines habitually destroy farmland, harm endangered species, and contaminate drinking water. The mining firms ...; Created on 07 May 2021
6. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... such as this one, quoted in relation to the water defenders’ refutations of the miners’ claims about job creation: “The water defenders may not have had PhDs in economics, but they certainly had done their ...; Created on 11 April 2021
7. Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption: (OceanaGold); ... in Australia, says it is committed to protecting the environment and boosting the economy. The mine says it has invested more than $1 billion in South Carolina since 2007, which is about the time miners ...; Created on 02 April 2021
8. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town: (OceanaGold); ... in South Carolina are so contaminated they are today federal Superfund cleanup sites. The Haile Gold Mine reopened at the site of a historic gold-digging operation after locating gold that miners in ...; Created on 12 February 2021
9. The Status of Investor-State Arbitration in Latin America in 2021: (ISDS); ... of an access channel to a coal seaport facility, the disruption of gold mining activities by ongoing civil strikes and illegal miners, the alleged expropriation of a local financial institution during ...; Created on 21 January 2021
10. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... million Indigenous Peoples depending on Amazon forest faces the attacks of criminal groups and illegal miners. The oil spill in Coca and Napo river in Ecuador affecting 200,000 Kichwa and Shuar people ...; Created on 17 December 2020
11. The PPDDH presents a report that addresses the socio-environmental impacts of the San Sebastián Mine: (Commerce Group); ... to pending environmental remediation and implementing alternative economic activities for artisanal miners, known as "güiriseros". El Salvador made history in March 2017, when the Legislative Assembly ...; Created on 26 December 2019
12. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... for transforming the economic activities of artisanal miners (güiriceros). Finally, the organizations requested the drafting of regulations to apply the Law of Prohibition of Metallic Mining through different ...; Created on 26 December 2019
13. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... for human rights is at the heart of Canada’s international policies and engagement, and the Embassy in Manilla has been responsive in bringing the concerns raised by the miners to the mine operator.” Canada’s ...; Created on 04 October 2019
14. National Roundtable against Metal Mining Demands technical closure of mines and compensation for environmental damage: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... by mining companies in the country. The representative also urged the Ministry of Economy (MINEC) to train artisanal miners in order to move to sustainable productive activities instead of mining. Vidalina ...; Created on 18 September 2019
15. 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
16. It is urgent to permanently close the dark chapter of metallic mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... of artisanal miners in the community of San Sebastian, La Unión. We also demand from the Ministry of the Interior that it proceeds to de-register the El Dorado Foundation from the Registry of Non-Profit ...; Created on 31 May 2018
17. Threats to the Law Against Metallic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... although the approval of the law set a precedent in Latin America, there is still no mechanisms to regulate its implementation. A specific example is the lack support offered to artisanal miners (known ...; Created on 07 May 2018
18. Cross border mining will be the next phase of the anti-mining struggle in El Salvador: (Cerro Blanco); Gloria Silvia Orellana - Diario CoLatino "My mother was the daughter of miners and when I told her everything that happened here (in El Salvador) she told me that when her father finished working (in a ...; Created on 14 November 2017
19. El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the industry watchdog group. With the exception of a transition period for small-scale artisanal gold miners, the law provides for an immediate, definitive, and permanent ban on all metals mining, including ...; Created on 16 April 2017
20. Community of San Sebastian still endures Commerce Group’s legacy of contamination.: (Commerce Group); ... also lamented the lack of jobs, which is one of the primary reasons artisanal miners, known as güiriseros, continue to work in the mountain and use dangerous chemicals without any form of government regulation. ...; Created on 13 February 2017

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