... for miners and likely reduce the production of metals such as copper in a boost to metal prices.
Volcan and Cerro Verde were among the worst performers on the S&P / BVL Peru General Index in Monday afternoon ...
... El Salvador’s volatile political environment and the government´s limited capacity to transform the economy of artisanal miners, a tiny but complex and vocal sub-sector of the mining industry, has many ...
By: Andrew Hamilton
First published in: http://eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=38560#.Up3TGSemZyp
In Australia, as elsewhere, the main business of mining companies is to find and seize opportunities ...
... an effort to provide incentives for artisanal miners to convert to more sustainable occupations, reparations for families that were victims of mining violence have not been issued, no efforts have been ...
... protected from miners and developers.
Toothless Watchdog All over the world, Canadian-run mines habitually destroy farmland, harm endangered species, and contaminate drinking water. The mining firms ...
... such as this one, quoted in relation to the water defenders’ refutations of the miners’ claims about job creation: “The water defenders may not have had PhDs in economics, but they certainly had done their ...
... in Australia, says it is committed to protecting the environment and boosting the economy. The mine says it has invested more than $1 billion in South Carolina since 2007, which is about the time miners ...
... in South Carolina are so contaminated they are today federal Superfund cleanup sites.
The Haile Gold Mine reopened at the site of a historic gold-digging operation after locating gold that miners in ...
... of an access channel to a coal seaport facility, the disruption of gold mining activities by ongoing civil strikes and illegal miners, the alleged expropriation of a local financial institution during ...
... million Indigenous Peoples depending on Amazon forest faces the attacks of criminal groups and illegal miners.
The oil spill in Coca and Napo river in Ecuador affecting 200,000 Kichwa and Shuar people ...
... to pending environmental remediation and implementing alternative economic activities for artisanal miners, known as "güiriseros".
El Salvador made history in March 2017, when the Legislative Assembly ...
... for transforming the economic activities of artisanal miners (güiriceros). Finally, the organizations requested the drafting of regulations to apply the Law of Prohibition of Metallic Mining through different ...
... for human rights is at the heart of Canada’s international policies and engagement, and the Embassy in Manilla has been responsive in bringing the concerns raised by the miners to the mine operator.”
Canada’s ...
... by mining companies in the country. The representative also urged the Ministry of Economy (MINEC) to train artisanal miners in order to move to sustainable productive activities instead of mining.
Vidalina ...
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 ...
... of artisanal miners in the community of San Sebastian, La Unión. We also demand from the Ministry of the Interior that it proceeds to de-register the El Dorado Foundation from the Registry of Non-Profit ...
... although the approval of the law set a precedent in Latin America, there is still no mechanisms to regulate its implementation. A specific example is the lack support offered to artisanal miners (known ...
Gloria Silvia Orellana - Diario CoLatino
"My mother was the daughter of miners and when I told her everything that happened here (in El Salvador) she told me that when her father finished working (in a ...
... the industry watchdog group.
With the exception of a transition period for small-scale artisanal gold miners, the law provides for an immediate, definitive, and permanent ban on all metals mining, including ...
... also lamented the lack of jobs, which is one of the primary reasons artisanal miners, known as güiriseros, continue to work in the mountain and use dangerous chemicals without any form of government regulation. ...