... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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." ...
... 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, ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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' ...
... 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 ...
... 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. ...
... 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, ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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, ...