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1. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Commerce Group); ... 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 ...; Created on 07 May 2018
2. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... El Salvador trying to draw attention to water contamination problems left over from before the 2017 ban. His organization was also trying to raise awareness of the rise in artisanal mining, which allegedly ...; Created on 03 April 2023
3. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... 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 ...; Created on 29 June 2021
4. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... channeled through “local elites in the artisanal small-scale mining (ASM) firms,” a study notes. “This support to more mining projects will encourage more Chinese investments to extract nickel, black ...; Created on 15 April 2021
5. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... in artisanal mining, to transform the sector within a period of two years. With the promulgation of the aforementioned law, the El Dorado mine closed operations in September 2017 and the Pacific Rim ...; Created on 05 January 2021
6. Social organizations reject militarization in five municipalities of Guatemala: (Regional News); ... The Constitutional Court suspended the project in July 2019, when the Union of Artisanal Fishermen of El Estor filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court arguing that the exploitation permit granted ...; Created on 20 July 2020
7. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Metallic Mining, mentioned other demands from environmentalists to government authorities: “the technical closing of abandoned mines, the closing of artisanal mining operations that are currently operating ...; Created on 15 July 2020
8. Agriculture, a sustainable economic alternative to mining: (Mining and Human Rights); ... activities that communities from Cabañas are currently engaged with, and could be promoted as alternatives to artisanal and industrial mining. These activities can generate higher incomes and a better ...; Created on 26 December 2019
9. The PPDDH presents a report that addresses the socio-environmental impacts of the San Sebastián Mine: (Commerce Group); ... 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 ...; Created on 26 December 2019
10. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... 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 ...; Created on 26 December 2019
11. National Roundtable against Metal Mining Demands technical closure of mines and compensation for environmental damage: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... options to people in communities that are still engaged in artisanal mining activities (known as guiriceros). Even though the FMLN government had two years to implement this measure, action is still left ...; Created on 18 September 2019
12. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); 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 ...; Created on 22 June 2018
13. It is urgent to permanently close the dark chapter of metallic mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... 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 ...; Created on 31 May 2018
14. Threats to the Law Against Metallic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... 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 ...; Created on 07 May 2018
15. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... El Salvador has a history of small artisanal mines, including a small mine in San Sebastián which was started some 100 years ago by local people. However, mining wasn’t an important part of the economy ...; Created on 07 May 2018
16. El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... 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 ...; Created on 16 April 2017
17. Community of San Sebastian still endures Commerce Group’s legacy of contamination.: (Commerce Group); ... population and providing economic alternatives to artisanal mining. Environment Attorney Ana Milagro Guevara de Medrano found that after a year the community still has no immediate access to clean water ...; Created on 13 February 2017
18. Commerce Group Mining Corporation required to pay for environmental clean up of the San Sebastian mine.: (Commerce Group); ... homes for decades; and, the lack of prospects for employment have forced hundreds of members of the community to practice artisanal mining under unsafe working conditions and utilizing practices that allow ...; Created on 02 March 2016
19. Resistance against the bloodsucker: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... plateau where the mine entrance used to be, and from where open tunnels still lead into the mountain. Artisanal miners have built shelters out of wooden posts, under shady aluminum roofs: with hammocks ...; Created on 03 January 2016
20. The negative legacy of mining in El Salvador continues after 100 years: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... has contaminated their main source of water, the San Sebastian River, and at least 300 people who currently work in artisanal mining are exposed daily to heavy metals, and substances like mercury and methane, ...; Created on 11 November 2015

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