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1. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of fresh water due to its release of acid mine drainage.” Organized around the slogan “Water is more important than gold,” activists succeeded in getting the mining ban passed and thereby ensured the ecological ...; Created on 06 April 2023
2. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... such as cyanide (a chemical that can kill a human being in quantities less than a grain of rice), mercury, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, lead, arsenic, cadmium, magnesium and other substances. According ...; Created on 14 December 2021
3. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... State to implement the law. In particular, the report points to a government´s debt with communities affected by mining: they still face the impacts of acid drainage in abandoned mines, there has not been ...; Created on 29 June 2021
4. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... deemed not “pertinent”. Shareholders asked if Pan American Silver would take responsibility for acid drainage and other tailings dam risks at the Quiruvilca mine in La Libertad, Peru. Pan American ...; Created on 17 May 2021
5. Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption: (OceanaGold); ... that filter stormwater and harbor wildlife. Areas of the mine that contain toxic material also would be enlarged. The mine wants to add more areas for potentially acid generating rock and increase the ...; Created on 02 April 2021
6. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... expansion as substantial. OceanaGold also would increase areas where the company plans to deposit potentially acid generating rock, while also increasing a mining waste storage site known as a tailings ...; Created on 30 March 2021
7. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... disaster of great magnitude when a spill of 40 thousand cubic meters of sulfuric acid occurred, contaminating the Sonora river, leaving it without drinkable water more than 20,000 people. New gold ...; Created on 09 August 2020
8. National Roundtable against Metal Mining Demands technical closure of mines and compensation for environmental damage: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the closure procedures for the mines have not initiated. Consequently, acid drainage (a toxic mix resulting form the gold extraction process) still spills and contaminates rivers as explained by the members ...; Created on 18 September 2019
9. National Roundtable against Metal Mining demands president Nayib Bukele to order the implementation of the Metal Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Lima, La Unión, need to be addressed and resolved. The members of the National Roundtable against Metal Mining assured that the river in San Sebastián community, has been contaminated with acid drainage. ...; Created on 16 September 2019
10. THE STRUGGLE FOR GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE CONTINUES IN EL SALVADOR: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... Water Law. A local community member looks at the San Sebastian river contaminated by acid drainage left behind by US based Commerce Group mining. Photo: International Allies From a business perspective, ...; Created on 27 August 2018
11. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Commerce Group); ... suspended an exploitation permit extended to the company and asked for an environmental remediation plan to deal with a permanent leak of acid drainage that affected the local river and underground water ...; Created on 07 May 2018
12. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... organized a letter-writing and phone campaign to pressure the company to withdraw from the lawsuit. They spilled orange salad dressing, symbolizing the mine’s acid drainage. A delegation from ...; Created on 07 May 2018
13. Mining company continues lobbying efforts to repeal Anti-Mining Law: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the country in its favor" said Belloso. Also, concerns were expressed about the presence of acid drainage in the San Sebastián River in Santa Rosa de Lima, department of La Unión (in the east of El Salvador). ...; Created on 14 November 2017
14. Commerce Group Mining Corporation required to pay for environmental clean up of the San Sebastian mine.: (Commerce Group); ... remediation of acid drainage resulting from their activities in the area. The San Sebastian mine was abandoned by Commerce Group Corporation (CGC), a mining company based in Wisconsin, US, after the Ministry ...; Created on 02 March 2016
15. Resistance against the bloodsucker: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... oxygen, still active within the empty tunnels, release metals such as Cadmium, Lead, Copper, and Iron from the rocks, and then leak them out into the river. Scientists call the red mine-sauce “acid drainage”. ...; Created on 03 January 2016
16. El Salvador: Vote Against Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... for us are poverty and contamination”. To this day, acid waste water still comes out of the mountain. Blanco points to a stream that runs by the corn fields. It shimmers with orange acid waste water from ...; Created on 02 January 2016
17. The negative legacy of mining in El Salvador continues after 100 years: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... plant because of mining. The most complex abandoned site was found to be the San Sebastian mine in Santa Rosa de Lima, La Union, where the population are facing the consequences of acid drainage that ...; Created on 11 November 2015
18. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); ... earlier operations played a role in swinging public opinion against mining: The Rio San Sebastian which flows from the site is laced with cyanide and affected by acid mine drainage — a process in which ...; Created on 13 February 2014
19. El Salvador suffers Australia's maleficent miner: (Water no Gold); ... water it becomes acidic and reacts with other elements to pollute soil and water. Even if the cyanide is held in tailing dams, the geological and climatic risks are high. Finally, the mountains in which ...; Created on 03 December 2013
20. Members of Congress urge El Salvador to protect environment and communities from mining: (Background and reports ); ... deficiency of fresh water due to its release of acid mine drainage, which has serious effects on the environment. The country is also being sued in an international trade tribunal by Canadian mining ...; Created on 27 November 2013

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