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1. El Salvador: 49 exploration permits were once approved
(Background and reports )
Xenia Gonzales Oliva: El Diario de Hoy / Translation P. Cabezas Between 2000-2010, 49 exploration permits were approved, they are all currently under an administrative freeze.   49 applications for metal ...
Created on 07 January 2016
2. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador
(Media Releases)
... mining sector; put out to tender for the exploration of special areas where deposits with proven economic potential are located; and coordinate with the Ministry of the Environment the evaluation procedures ...
Created on 16 December 2021
3. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... metal exploration and exploitation again. The government has shown little interest to date in environmental issues, and its policies and practices confirm the absence of an environmental conscience. ...
Created on 14 December 2021
4. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business
(Mining and Human Rights)
... ban by prohibiting all large-scale metalliferous mining activity at every stage including prospection and exploration, not only exploitation. However, under increasing pressure from industry, the Chubut ...
Created on 17 May 2021
5. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities
(Mining and Human Rights)
... not only goes unchecked, but is actively fostered through economic support. According to Natural Resources Canada, in 2019, 621 Canadian mining and exploration companies operated in 96 countries abroad, ...
Created on 12 May 2021
6. Reactivation of Cerro Blanco Mining Project
(Mining and Human Rights)
... exploration applications to its name. The reactivation of Cerro Blanco, and its change from undergound mining to open pit mining entails much greater and irreversible socio-environmental risks and impacts. ...
Created on 06 May 2021
7. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... That same month, Duterte lifted an oil exploration moratorium in what the Philippine government calls the West Philippine Sea, an area it claims in the South China Sea. These government decisions boosted ...
Created on 15 April 2021
8. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... in suits” drilling for gold. In the early 2000s, Pacific Rim Mining Corporation—acquired by OceanaGold in 2013—started drilling exploration wells in Cabañas Department, about 40 miles northeast of San ...
Created on 11 April 2021
9. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger
(OceanaGold)
... since 2007, when exploration for additional gold deposits began. The expansion could produce $256 million in gold and silver annually, one federal environmental impact report says. “They’re good business ...
Created on 30 March 2021
10. OceanaGold (ASX:OGC) fined A$128,500 as environmental concerns at Haile continue
(OceanaGold)
... our Environmental Policy, we are committed to responsible environmental management through all of the stages of the development cycle: exploration, construction, operations, and closure," the company says ...
Created on 15 February 2021
11. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... in its exploration phase, the company closed its facilities in 2017 due to the approval of the Law prohibiting metallic mining. Following the expectations of a local sector to improve the living conditions ...
Created on 05 January 2021
12. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... remains. In India’s Assam and Manipur, permits for coal and mineral mining and exploration in wildlife centers and IP lands are hastened in the name of “seamless economic growth.” Five-star Marriott ...
Created on 17 December 2020
13. A Canadian Mining Giant Is Quietly Ramping Up Work in New Zealand. Locals Are Worried
(OceanaGold)
... is aware exploration has started in rural land in Waihi—there’s a drill rig that allows OceanaGold to determine ground condition and stability. He said the activity falls under a range of works under the ...
Created on 17 December 2020
14. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America
(Regional News)
... leader Roberto de la Rosa Dávila, who insisted on stopping exploration at the mine, received threats from Grupo Frisco, and it is feared that he may be arbitrarily detained. "Instead of respecting the need ...
Created on 09 August 2020
15. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19
(Regional News)
... sided with the company to absolve it of responsibility and to discredit the Shuar People’s elected leadership instead.   As documented in Voices from the Ground, other mineral exploration companies have ...
Created on 23 July 2020
16. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer
(Mining and Human Rights)
... with not only “essential” maintenance and other activities running, but the mining production chain remaining active. In other words exploration, exploitation, transport, commercialization and even construction ...
Created on 22 July 2020
17. Arrests, harassment of environmental defenders amid COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... in Mindanao. The five companies were the Romualdez oligarchy-owned Benguet Corp., Abacus Coal Exploration and Development Corp., Chinese-owned Great Wall Mining and Power Corp., ASK Mining and Exploration ...
Created on 21 April 2020
18. Honouring the struggle of Mariano Abarca and Environment Defenders in Chiapas
(Regional News)
... been leading a local fight against water contamination and social divisions arising from a nearby barite mine operated by Canadian company Blackfire Exploration. He had been facing threats from people ...
Created on 26 December 2019
19. The PPDDH presents a report that addresses the socio-environmental impacts of the San Sebastián Mine
(Commerce Group)
... Law against mining exploration and exploitation. As a result of this law, some considerations have to be taken into account, especially in the case of the San Sebastián Mine, due to the impact of water contamination ...
Created on 26 December 2019
20. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... that is not fully applied, or implemented, or monitored,” González concluded.  In San Isidro, Cabañas, the population was affected by the incursion of mining explorations. Miguel Rivera, brother of murdered ...
Created on 26 December 2019
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