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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 corporate attacks on resources is globalized resistance. Struggle and victory in Cabañas.

As reported in Diario CoLatino, ADES has concluded that the waste from the mining operation will pollute local water supplies and adversely impact local agriculture and fisheries. The mine is operated by a Canadian company, Pacific Rim. The El Dorado mine is the first commercial-scale gold mine in El Salvador.

Jun 25, 2014· The Fight to Ban Gold Mining and Save El Salvador's Water Supply. Gold-digging multinationals are fueling political violence and environmental devastation in El Salvador, but communities are fighting back. By Julia Paley, June 25, 2014.

Like Water for Gold in El Salvador. ... to make El Salvador the first nation to ban gold mining. We traveled to El Salvador in April to find out if this struggle to keep gold in the ground can be ...

Mar 30, 2017· El Salvador has made history after becoming the first country in the world to ban metal mining.. Lawmakers in the water-parched country passed the .

Mar 29, 2017· SAN SALVADOR — Lawmakers in El Salvador voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to prohibit all mining for gold and other metals, making the country the first in the world to impose a nationwide ban ...

El Salvador mine (The Savior) is a combined open pit and underground copper mine located in Chile and owned by the state owned copper mining company Codelco. The mine is located in the company town of El Salvador.. The mine was originally built by The Anaconda Company in the late 1950s, but in 1971, with the nationalization of the copper industry in Chile, full ownership of the mine was turned ...

Jul 31, 2015· Note: This article was written prior to a history mining ban that took place in El Salvador in 2017, essentially banning all metal mining within the country. There has long been conflict between outside mining interests and the environmental concerns of residents in the area. While a blanket ban on mining is not a realistic [.]

Aug 11, 2010· Mining for El Salvador's Gold — In Washington. An international tribunal gives the green light to a lawsuit brought by two companies attempting to overcome strong public and government resistance to their destructive gold mining. By Manuel Perez-Rocha, August 11, 2010.

Apr 17, 2017· "Mining in El Salvador" follows a delegation of Western students and academics as they observe first-hand a historic referendum in the country earlier .

Mar 31, 2017· At the urging of Catholic leaders, El Salvador has passed a law banning metal mining nationwide, making the small Central American country the first in the world to outlaw the industry.

Nov 23, 2015· By Rachel Nadelman* El Salvador's refusal to allow gold mining within its borders sets it apart from most other Latin American countries, but the mining suspension is far from permanent. Since 2007, three successive presidents, from both the right-wing ARENA and left-wing FMLN parties, have maintained an administrative metals mining "industry freeze."

Jun 23, 2017· The Environmental Secretary who ordered the suspension of the Didipio mine was not confirmed under heavy pressure from the mining lobby in the Philippines in May, but the underlying conflicts have not gone away. "Ignoring or papering over the problems the company has in El Salvador and the Philippines is not going to make them disappear.

May 27, 2015· El Salvador is an impoverished country, but its citizens live above riches: the country has an estimated 1.4m ounces of gold buried underground, as well as .

mining 'Water wins over gold' in El Salvador mining ban. El Salvador's Parliament has approved a law banning all metal mining projects. The measure aims to protect the impoverished Central ...

Apr 01, 2018· 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 years, according to Pedro Cabezas, who runs the mining and human rights program of CRIPDES, the largest rural organization in the country and a leader in the Salvadoran social movement.

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.

El Salvador's Gold Fight. At stake in El Salvador's movement to ban mining is the question of whether private interests can trump national sovereignty. By Michael Busch. Edited by .

In March 2017 social movements in El Salvador achieved a major victory - the approval of a complete ban on all metal mining in the country, the first country in the world to do so. This momentous socio-environmental struggle shows us that the powerful don't always win, and that it's possible to win against the strategies of corporations hell bent on expanding their destructive extractive projects.

The Divisadero Gold Mine is near San Francisco Gotera, El Salvador. The Divisadero Gold Mine was closed at the time of data entry with no known plans to re-open. The ore mined is composed of gold. Associated rock in this area is volcanic rock (aphanitic).

[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) [click to view]

Sep 23, 2014· The Fight to Keep Toxic Mining Out of El Salvador Hundreds of protesters recently gathered at the World Bank to shame a gold-mining firm's shakedown of one of Central America's poorest countries.

Apr 28, 2015· Analysts are not sure what to make of El Salvador's recent move that saw its central bank sell about 80% percent of its gold reserves in March, according to figures published by the ...

Apr 11, 2017· El Salvador is a small and densely populated country. Yet by 2012 the government had 22 requests for gold exploration, allowing gold mines to monopolize 4.23 % of the land. The appropriation of land for mining often takes the form of land .
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