Peru’s government has cancelled the concession for Vancouver-based Bear Creek Mining’s (TSX-V: BCM) Santa Ana silver project in Puno region amid protests that turned deadly on Friday. Authorities held talks with protest leaders on Friday and, after 10 hours of negotiations, agreed to repeal the supreme decree which authorized the company to explore the concession. […]
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Thousands of protesters opposed to mining and energy projects in southern Peru have taken over an airport as the government struggled to restore calm a day after five died in a clash with police. Officials said approximately 3,000 protesters had occupied the runway at the Juliaca airport in the region of Puno on Saturday. Several […]
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According to ElComercio.com on Friday June 24th two people were killed and 12 injured when rural workers tried forcefully to occupy the airport in Juliaca, located in southern Peru on the Bolivian border. The occupation was lead by anti-mining protesters that were eventually repelled by the Peruvian police says a hospital source. Officials say that […]
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According to ElComercio.com the Coordinating Minister for Security, Homero Arellano announced that Ecuador’s Central Bank would buy gold directly from the miners of San Lorenzo and Eloy Alfaro. The announcement was made in Selvalegre, northern Esmeraldas. Furthermore, the government will provide 50 gold extraction machines, to miners through mining associations. The machines cost $9,000 each […]
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According to ElComercio.pe talks between the Ministries of Energy and Mines, Agriculture and the Interior with the group of Aymara leaders continued on Saturday without resolution. Dialogue held on Friday included a proposal of concessions from both parties to end the mining strike. The Aymara leaders rejected the proposal, continuing the fight for the cancellation […]
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Diario ABC reports that the body of a murdered activist who had protested mining operations in El Salvador was found last Tuesday in a mass grave in Soyapango, 6 kilometers east of San Salvador. The victim, a university student named Juan Francisco Durán, disappeared on June 2, according to local environmental organizations. His murder follows […]
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Twelve policemen and a cooperative miner are missing as a result of a dynamite explosion during a violent confrontation between uniformed and cooperative employees of a mine during early hours of Tuesday in the mining center of Sayaquira, Inquisivi province of La Paz. Read Article
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•The 5 individuals, including a woman 6 months pregnant, died after being trapped in an illegal gold mine in López de Micay, Cauca, that exploded and collapsed. •RCN Radio reports that the Colombian authorities and emergency organisms are in the isolated area of the accident in order to ensure no further incidents. •There are currently […]
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Korean firms investing in the energy sector in Peru have closely watched the Latin American country after a left-wing presidential candidate won the run-off election on June 5. Analysts say Ollanta Humala, president-elect, will need to find financial resources to realize his policy vision of giving more benefits to the poor in education and welfare.
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A gold rush that accelerated with the onset of the 2008 global recession is compounding the woes of the Amazon basin, laying waste to Peruvian rain forest and spilling tons of toxic mercury into the air and water. Read Article
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According to RPP.com.pe the strike against mining concessions has caused a blockage in about 12 miles of the southern Pan American highway by residents of the Chucuito province. The blockage begins at the district of Zepita and ends at the boarder town of Desaguadero. The protesters have placed rocks and mounds of soil to prevent […]
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According to ElComercio.pe the miners in Puno have continued their strike against concessions in the region. Reportedly, the anti-mining strike is become more intense with roads blocked for 12 hours. The indigenous group, Aymara have blocked thirteen places within the 25-mile route between Desaguadero and Zepita. According to the ElComercio correspondent, Carlos Fernandez, located in […]
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According to ElComercio.pe the regional government of Puno is hoping for discussions with Aymara, the Indians of the high plateaus, on the subject of mining. The government is hoping to avoid protests against mining concessions that were suspended last week due to the elections and will begin on Wednesday the 8th. The regional director of […]
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Chile’s fourth biggest copper mine, Codelco’s El Teniente, saw output more than halved on Saturday as staff workers stayed off the job due to fears raised by violent protests this week by striking contractors, the company said. Read Article
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Peru’s Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) said Monday that eleven mining projects worth more than US$16.5 billion are currently underway around the country after the approval of their respective environmental impact studies. According to MEM’s monthly bulletin, four of these projects will begin operations in 2011 and 2012. Read Article
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After two days, a group of firefighters resactaron Miguel Size (35) and Aldo Melendez Palacios (33). Ambos fueron trasladados al hospital de Nazca (Ica). Both were taken to hospital in Nazca (Ica). Artisanal miners since last Friday were trapped inside the mine adit rACC rACC in the district of Santa Lucia, province of Lucanas ( […]
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The chairman of the Natural Resources Defense of the Southern Region, Walter Aduviri said the Aymara nation “will not lift the strike” The Defence Committee of Natural Resources of the Southern Region of Puno continue its indefinite strike last night even though the executive authorities agreed to suspend for one year highland mining concessions and […]
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Tourism to the islands of the Uros, located on Lake Titicaca shared by Peru and Bolivia, fell on Sunday by anti-mining strike heeded in the border region of Puno. Read Article Reports are indicating that tourists are not able to enter Puno or Lake Titicaca and there is no movement between Peru and Bolivia.
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Indigenous protesters opposed to a Canadian company’s plans for silver mine in the southern highlands of Peru sacked public buildings and set fire to several vehicles in the regional capital of Puno Thursday. Read Article
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More than 1,000 soldiers arrived yesterday at San Lorenzo for realizing the state of emergency declared in the area to fight the miners. This product damage were several bulldozers used to this activity. The militaries of North Operational Command 1 of Atuntaqui, eight helicopters raided early yesterday morning to the town to close Selva Alegre […]
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Petaquilla Minerals Ltd. (the “Company”) today announced the planned expansion of its production system at its Molejon gold mine facility, located in Panama, by increasing grinding and processing capacity in addition to its on-going construction of a heap leach operation. The new production improvements, when fully implemented, are expected to generate an additional monthly recovery […]
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Inmet Mining Corporation (“Inmet”) (TSX: IMN) announced today that Ellington Investments Pte. Ltd. (“Ellington”), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited, has exchanged $500 million previously issued subscription receipts for 7,779,692 Inmet common shares. As a result of the exchange, the number of Inmet’s issued and outstanding common shares has increased to 69,328,864 […]
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