Lawmakers in El Salvador, Central America's smallest nation, have passed a law that bans all mining for gold and other metals, making the country the world's first to impose such a broad ...
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"Today, residents of this area, some born in those Honduran refugee camps, are fighting U.S. and Canadian mining companies eager to extract the rich veins of gold buried near the Lempa River, the water source for more than half of El Salvador's 6.2 million people. Once again, civilians have been killed or are receiving death threats."
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Sign at Goldcorps Cerro Blanco mine Guatemala. Photo by Alejandro Labrador. Some of our delegation then travel to La Union in eastern El Salvador, where Milwaukee-based Commerce Group mined off and on from the 1960s until the government kicked it out in 2006. Here, one uncovers the horrific environmental nightmare that …
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Polluted water and garbage litters an abandoned mine in El Salvador. Salvadoran communities have fought back a multinational firm's plans to mine gold in the watershed of the Lempa River, which supplies …
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El Salvador made history in 2017 when lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to ban mining for gold and other metals after coming under intense pressure from international mining interests. Mining requires large amounts of water that is often left contaminated with toxic chemicals. Faced with an extremely limited supply of clean …
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The Mesa recognizes that renouncing gold mining would be an epic decision for El Salvador, with significant global implications. Though the stakes are high, it may be easier for El Salvador to ban mining than for countries already heavily dependent on mining export revenues—including those with left-leaning governments, like Bolivia and Ecuador.
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The growing resistance to mining in El Salvador has focused on Pacific Rim, a Canada-based transnational that received a permit in 2002 to begin exploratory work on a …
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Mining was imposed on the Salvadoran people as a dream industry to aid development, create jobs and yield taxes to pay for schools and hospitals, write Ricardo Navarro & Sam Cossar-Gilber. But the reality was a nightmare of polluted water, stolen farmland, corporate violence, and murder. After a long campaign, El Salvador has just …
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In 2009, a grassroots group working to stop a Canadian company from opening a gold mine in central El Salvador was chosen to receive a human rights award in Washington, D.C.
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Gold Mining In El Salvador Overview 20 Total Mines; Table 6 Total Mines; Browse 20 mining USGS records in el salvador. Most records highlight mining opportunities and activity in Cabanas, La Union, and Morazan. Quick Facts. 20 records of mining in el salvador. 8 producers. 12 occurrences.
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The El Dorado mine is the first commercial-scale gold mine in El Salvador. According to ADES, the numbers speak for themselves: of a projected annual profit of $30 million for North American shareholders, 1% royalties to the San Isidro county government amount to $300,000 and 148 jobs for locals for eight years.
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"For us, the mine is death." Those words, spoken by the president of a rural grassroots organization, capture the intensity and urgency of the struggle against mining in El Salvador. Mining has reaped devastating consequences in El Salvador. Toxins from mining operations have made 90 percent of El Salvador's water undrinkable.
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The people of El Salvador and their international allies against irresponsible mining are celebrating a historic victory. After a long battle against global mining companies that were determined to plunder …
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Pacific Rim Mining's El Dorado project is silver and gold underground project, 10 km southwest of Sensuntepeque. Image from Company and PropertyMine.
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El Salvador banned all mining of metals in 2017, but environmentalists are concerned that the government is preparing to reverse the decision and bring in international investment. The …
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A case brought against El Salvador by another gold-mining company, Commerce Group, was dismissed earlier this year on a technicality, but the government still had to pay close to $1 million in ...
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Calling gold mining a scourge on the environment of El Salvador, a group of protesters rallied Monday outside the World Bank in the District, where a tribunal is discussing the case of a foreign ...
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El Salvador has 20 identified mines listed in The Diggings™. The most commonly listed primary commodities in El Salvador mines are Silver, Gold, and Copper .
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The water defenders started speaking out against industrial mining around 2005, when the rising price of gold attracted increased interest in the untapped deposits across northern El Salvador ...
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Browse gold mining mines in El Salvador by region—including Cabanas, La Union, Morazan.
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El Salvador's struggle against gold mining is an inspiring example of how to confront the latest transnational strategy and proof that the solution to globalized …
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The government of El Salvador has asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ... The gold mine will have a total of 19MW of solar capacity and 9MW/4.5MWh of BESS capacity installed.
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Last Friday, the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes declared without merit Pacific Rim/OceanaGold's $250-million lawsuit against El Salvador.
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El Salvador's battle against gold mining fits this trend to a tee. For four years grassroots resistance has successfully prevented North American corporations from mining gold. Last year, the companies retaliated with CAFTA lawsuits for hundreds of millions of dollars against El Salvador's newly-elected progressive government. In …
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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 …
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Lawmakers in El Salvador, Central America's smallest nation, have passed a law that bans all mining for gold and other metals, making the country the world's first to impose such a broad...
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El Salvador's law was adopted after a long dispute between the government and a Canadian company that had made an investment in a gold mining venture. El Salvador prevailed last year after a ...
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El Dorado. The mining story starts in the 1990s, when the Salvadoran government bowed to World Bank pressure and reformed its tax code to encourage foreign investment. El Salvador had never been a mining capital, but as strains of gold and silver were discovered throughout the region, companies began entering the country.
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The government had denied permits for a gold mining project in northern El Salvador that the company was trying to establish. It sued for unrealized profits. The legal win prompted a diverse set ...
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We investigated themes related to the health and environmental impacts of gold mining in El Salvador. Methods. Over a 1-month period in 2013, we conducted focus groups (n = 32 participants in total) and individual semistructured interviews (n = 11) with community leaders until we achieved thematic saturation. Data collection took place in 4 ...
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Over the last 25 years, local community members have repeatedly rejected a gold mining project on the border of Guatemala and El Salvador for lack of environmental compliance.
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[2] El Salvador -- Gold, Guns, and Choice: The El Dorado gold mine, violence in Cabanas, CAFTA claims, and the national effort to ban mining - Richard Steiner, Professor Member, IUCN/CEESP International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Commission on Environmental Economic, and Social Policy (CEESP)
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In July 2008, Pacific Rim Mining, a socially responsive Canadian gold mining Multinational Corporation (MNC) with $77 million invested in El Salvador, experienced a 30% decline in stock price when it suspended exploration drilling for gold there. In April 2009, the company filed a lawsuit against the government of El Salvador …
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The most recent company to extract gold from this mountain was Wisconsin-based Commerce Group, which first acquired the San Sebastian gold mine in 1968. Commerce Group made money off the gold for many years, stopping temporarily during El Salvador's civil war and ceasing mining activity by 1999 due primarily to the …
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Commerce Group made money off the gold for many years, stopping temporarily during El Salvador's civil war and ceasing mining activity by 1999 due primarily to the low price of gold. Yet, as gold prices skyrocketed over the past decade, Commerce filed for and was awarded a new mining license from the government.
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For miners, investors, and artisans, few things are more precious than gold. But for human life itself, nothing is more precious than water. Just ask the people of El Salvador. Nearly 30 years ago, the Wisconsin-based Commerce Group Corp purchased a gold mine near the San Sebastian River in El Salvador and contaminated the water.
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Like Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, El Salvador stretches along the Mesoamerican central mineralized belt rich with gold, silver, nickel, and uranium. El …
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