... was along the lines of the four previous referendums on the issue: 98.1 percent of participating registered voters in Cinquera cast a ballot opposing metallic mining exploration and exploitation. The local ...
... the El Dorado Foundation and renamed the company’s exploration company after El Salvador’s national bird, the torogoz (turquoise-browed motmot). Its local public relations strategy is perceived locally ...
... approximately 250 million dollars as compensation for not letting it exploit El Dorado mine in San Isidro, Cabañas.
In 2002, the company had started exploration works in the mine after acquiring permits, ...
... as it concerns the exploration, extraction, processing, and commercialization of the non-renewable resources on and below ground, which has been in effect since 1996.
Faced with the solicitation presented ...
... 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 ...
... with exploration activities they have already contaminated underground sources of water. We have a project the nearby community of La Maraña, where water from the wells contain heavy metals, the local ...
... grant permits for the exploration or extraction of precious metals during his mandate) at a meeting occurred at the Presidential House on August 25.
"Oceana Gold should already be complying with the court' ...
... called Pacific Rim, which applied for a permit to open a gold mine in the north central department of Cabañas in 2004 after several years of exploration. Unlike neighboring Guatemala and Honduras, El Salvador ...
... of kidney and lung diseases in their country.
The original company that applied for the exploration license was the Canadian company PacificRim. In September 2013, it was bought out by Collins Street ...
By P. Cabezas
As the morning sun rises on the town of San Jose las Flores, members of the community prepare for the annual pilgrimage to the Urbina Hills, the site that once was the main exploration ...