... brakes on a modern day ‘gold rush’,” MiningWatch Canada wrote in a statement Thursday. The Central American nation is the first country in the world to ban mining for gold and other metals, according to ...
Oxfam
This assessment conducted by Oxfam discusses the social, environmental and economic costs of metals mining in Central America. The prices of metals are very unstable and mining practices produce ...
... well as developing health issues from the exposure to hazardous chemicals. The mining industry violates human rights by negatively influencing the health, society and well-being of communities.
https://www.earthworksaction.org/files/publications/NDG_DirtyMetalsReport_HR.pdf ...
... Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Development (IGF), an organization of Canadian origin that promotes best practices of mining in its member countries. According to policy statements ...
... of over 50 countries promoting mining called the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Metals and Sustainable Development and based in Ottawa, Canada. Two participants in the Forum, and members of the board ...
... 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 ...
... River is now dead thanks to Ivanhoe and Lepanto,” he said. He added that tailings from the mine disposed into the river have had a harmful impact on fish, and heavy metals have poisoned agricultural lands. ...
... forward with a highly contentious gold mine in one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. According to Rosana Miranda of the São Paulo–based Amazon Watch, the company’s use of heavy metals and cyanide ...
... not only to block Pacific Rim’s mine but to impose a nationwide ban on metals mining. Even as they grieved, they set aside their historical enmity with rightist parties that were linked to their own community’s ...
... with metals in their blood in Peru; and outsourcing, child and labor, and a million-dollar lawsuit under an Investor-State Dispute Arbitration (ISDS) case in Bolivia. Glencore is one of the world’s largest ...
... also achieved something unprecedented, something remarkable: a national ban on metals mining. What then does the term “ordinary” do here?
The answer lies, I think, in asides that Broad and Cavanagh make, ...
... to ban all metals mining to save their rivers.
Today the United States faces a similar reckoning as El Salvador.
The Texas freeze that left millions without water exposed the desperate need to rein ...
... the people of that community, who trusted that the gold mine would be operated and run and monitored safely, are now suffering — or will suffer — the long term impacts of heavy metals like mercury in their ...
... found heavy metals in the water, fecal coliforms. And now, arsenic and mercury have been confirmed in the bodies of our brothers who are sick and confined to their beds," said Feliz Suasaca, a health and ...
... kilometre from the Los Filos mine’s massive heap leach pad, onto which Equinox sprays a cyanide solution to extract precious metals from crushed ore. Since the mine went into operation in 2008, the community’s ...
... municipality of Eduardo Neri, in the center of the state of Guerrero, Mexico. These lands are located in an area that enjoys a peculiar and abundant wealth of precious metals. "The territory is crossed ...
... shortages and contaminate water supplies with arsenic and heavy metals, putting people, plants, and animals at risk.
Speaking to a crowd of all ages that gathered to celebrate La Puya´s anniversary on ...
... but many, like Angela, continue to use its waters for bathing and laundry.
Water pollution due to heavy metals forced some inhabitants of the areas bordering Guatemala to search for water in nearby communities. ...
... due to the high content of toxic metals and the reduction of the water flow.
Both water streams above, provide water for the Guija Lake, the main head of the Lempa River.
“We have been observing ...
... village, continue to suffer from skin irritation, fatigue, and body aches as a result of heavy metals—like lead, arsenic, mercury, cadmium, copper, and chromium—flowing through their blood. Doctors blame ...