Pac Rim Cayman LLC later acquired by Oceana Gold was a Canadian gold miner investing in El Salvador at a time when the country was promoting foreign investments to develop its mining industry and boost its economy Between 2024 and 2024 Pac Rim acquired mining licences to conduct exploratory and pre mining activities in various concession areas
Get PriceVancouver based Pacific Rim Mining Corp has been exploring for gold and silver in the El Dorado region of El Salvador since 2024 That year corporate gold diggers hit the jackpot when Dayton
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Get PriceThe 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 the country s natural resources for short term profits El Salvador s Legislative Assembly has voted to ban all metal mining projects
Get PriceAs El Salvador transitions from decades of conservative rule to the administration of leftist President Mauricio Funes the country faces an international showdown triggered by a restrictive free trade agreement between the United States and Central America Canada s Pacific Rim Mining Corporation is suing the government for its refusal to allow it to mine gold in El Salvador s rural north If
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Get PriceLike Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua and Costa Rica El Salvador stretches along the Mesoamerican central mineralized belt rich with gold silver nickel and uranium El Salvador currently has approximately 37 mining prospects under exploration permit most in the watershed of El Salvador s largest river Rio Lempa However there is
Get PriceThe National Roundtable on Metallic Mining of El Salvador La Mesa is a broad group of community organizations human rights NGOs church groups and research centers that have been working courageously — several of their members have been murdered and many have received death threats — to prevent gold extraction in El Salvador
Get PriceEl Salvador has banned all metals mining saying it poses a threat to the development and well being of families It becomes the first country to implement a blanket metals mining ban
Get PriceSan Salvador El Salvador — There are times in life when things come together forces galvanize pieces fall into place and processes take on a magical quality that keeps you wondering when the dream will end That s what it felt like for those of us in the struggle against metallic mining when legislators here finally found the political will to block an industry that threatened to rob this
Get PriceThe El Dorado gold mine in the department of Cabañas is part of a fifty kilometer wide band of gold stretching through Guatemala El Salvador and Nicaragua parallel to the Pacific Coast The nearest town is San Isidro where most people survive by farming small plots or working as ranch hands To the eyes of an outsider the terrain is
Get PriceMar 29 2017SAN 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 on
Get PricePacific Rim a Canadian gold mining company is suing El Salvador for $301 million in lost profits Salvadorians oppose the mining because of the likely contamination of their drinking water Can a poor country prohibit its exploitation for the sake of the environment Foreign investors should not have special rights to sue Can compensation be demanded when a country follows the democratic
Get PriceGuatemala s main export partners are the United States El Salvador Honduras Mexico and Nicaragua The country exported $10 billion worth of goods in 2024 Since 2024 the mining sector has contributed on average of 2 2% of Guatemala s nominal GDP Overview of Resources
Get PriceOn October 14 2024 a tribunal at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes ICSID dismissed on their merits all claims by Pac Rim Cayman LLC Pac Rim against El Salvador The tribunal ordered the mining company—currently owned by Australian Canadian OceanaGold—to pay US$8 million towards El Salvador s legal costs
Get PriceEl 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
Get PriceOn the issue of mining the people and the government have decided that the risks do not outweigh the benefits OceanaGold needs to respect the people of El Salvador and stop exporting the decision to a foreign court in an attempt to force mining on communities
Get PriceOn March 29 2024 legislators in El Salvador passed a much anticipated bill prohibiting all mining for gold and other metals The results of the vote were unanimous and cross party 69 in favor none against and no abstentions The bill makes El Salvador the first country in the world to institute such a blanket ban on metals mining
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Get PriceAn active opponent of Pacific Rim/OceanaGold s El Dorado gold mine in El Salvador Sorto Recinos was shot and killed as she returned home from doing her laundry She was eight months pregnant at the time Her other small child was also injured in the attack June 17 2024 Juan Franciso Durán Ayala A student anti mining activist
Get PriceA Compelling History of Mining in El Salvador Jan 2024 Posted on January 15 2024 March 4 2024 by usesscAdmin Everything has to do with Pacific Rim and the company s longing to exploit the gold found underground in the department of Cabañas Almost from the time that the company set up in said zone conflicts began whose biggest
Get PriceOpen pit mining has already been banned in Costa Rica and El Salvador while it has a negative outlook in Guatemala The opening of Cobre Panamá and the resilience of gold production in Nicaragua—despite the ongoing political crisis—will comfort the sector; however social pressure is expected to increase over the coming years
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Get PriceThe most dramatic recent example is found in El Salvador which on March 29 became the first country to impose a nationwide ban on metal mining Legislators overwhelmingly voted in favor of the ban claiming that the country s dwindling clean water supply could not sustain metal mining operations El Salvador has been ranked the most water
Get PriceThe National Roundtable on Metallic Mining of El Salvador is a broad group of community organizations human rights NGOs church groups and research centers that have been working courageously — several of their members have been murdered and many have received death threats — to prevent gold extraction in El Salvador
Get PriceEl Salvador Commerce Group Corp and San Sebastian Gold Mines Inc v Republic of El Salvador ICSID Case No ARB/09/17 Expand / Collapse All Applicable IIA CAFTA DR 2024 Nationality of the parties Claims arising out of the Government s termination of a 30 year mining concession to the claimants following the withdrawal of
Get PriceSan Salvador/Ottawa In a startling development driven by a groundswell of opposition to the social and environmental risks that mining poses to this Central American nation El Salvador s Legislative Assembly voted Wednesday to become the first country to ban mining for gold and other metals in effect canceling any projects now in the pipeline
Get PriceProtests halt gold mining in El Salvador Resistance from environmentalists and death threats against them puts spotlight on El Dorado mine Published On 25 Jul 2024 25 Jul 2024
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