El Salvador: can gold mining be carried out without poisoning water?
El Salvador recently overturned a mining ban | Credits: Shutterstock 22 January 2025 Hundreds protested in El Salvador last Sunday (19 January) following the government's …
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El Salvador's Sustainable Mining Could Create Thousands of …
El Salvador is poised to potentially transform its economy through the responsible and sustainable mining of gold, as President Nayib Bukele recently highlighted the country's …
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Metal Mining in El Salvador?: A Critical Analysis of Reserves, …
The analysis addresses three key aspects: the plausibility of claims about El Salvador's gold reserves, the feasibility of alternative technologies to cyanide, and the social …
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Could gold miners persuade Bukele to reverse mining ban?
Environmental activists in El Salvador continue to be on alert for the possible resumption of gold mining activity in the country. Although the country was the first in the world to ban metallic mining within its borders in 2017, anti-mining advocates worry that preparations are being made in the current government to lift that prohibition.
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El Salvador sitting on $3 trillion worth of unmined gold, …
El Salvador, which became the first country in the world to ban metals mining, could be losing out economy-changing wealth due to its massive unearthed gold deposits, says its President Nayib...
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El Salvador's mining ban stifles US$3 trillion in unearthed gold
El Salvador, which became the first country in the world to ban metals mining, could be losing out on transformational wealth due to its massive unearthed gold deposits, President Nayib Bukele says. In a speech earlier this week, Bukele said that the Central American nation is sitting on unmined gold worth as much as US$3 trillion, which is ...
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VOA Spanish: El Salvador faces challenges mining gold, silver …
The expert who defended El Salvador in international litigation against mining companies speaks to VOA about the risks the nation faces with a new law on gold and silver extraction, after ...
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Water Over Gold: 15 Reasons Why El Salvador Should Again Reject Gold
When El Salvador's legislature voted unanimously to prohibit all metals mining in order to save its rivers and water, here are the main reasons why. They remain as true in 2024 as in 2017. — Cuando la Asamblea Legislativa de El Salvador votó unánimemente a favor de prohibir todo tipo de minería de metales para salvar los ríos y aguas del país, estas fueron las …
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Mexico And El Salvador Ponder Different Mining Stances
El Salvador's Bukele seeks to lift a mining ban, arguing that gold reserves could transform the economy despite water pollution risks. ... It directly employs over 370,000 workers and supports millions more in related industries such as logistics and equipment manufacturing. ... "We potentially have the largest gold deposits per square ...
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El Salvador reverses landmark mining ban, setting up clash with …
Lawmakers in El Salvador have voted to reintroduce industrial mining in the country, ending a landmark ban that was meant to protect freshwater and public health. The law, pushed through just days ...
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El Salvador's president proposes ending country's ban on metals mining
From the Associated Press Wednesday, November 27, 2024. SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on Wednesday proclaimed himself in favor of mining gold in the Central America country and called his nation's 7-year-old ban on metals mining "absurd," immediately putting in jeopardy the historic prohibition.
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El Salvador's Gold Mining Debate: Wealth or Environmental Risk?
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has advocated for lifting the country's metals mining ban, calling it 'absurd.' This move could change the course of the nation's economic situation. Despite Bukele's support and political influence, environmentalists warn of potential health and ecological risks, while past policies favored conservation.
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El Salvador Eyes $3 Trillion Gold Mine Beneath Its …
According to Bukele, the small Central American nation sits atop an estimated $3 trillion in unmined gold reserves—a potential jackpot that could radically transform El Salvador's financial future. "We potentially have the …
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El Salvador could be 'sitting on a gold mine' with $3 trillion in
El Salvador's gold reserves could be worth an astounding three trillion dollars - representing over 8,800% of the country's current GDP ... A History of Mining Resistance. In 2017, El Salvador ...
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Resistance to mining grows in El Salvador as environmentalists' …
Update on El Salvador. by CISPES. First published January 31, 2025. Despite a unanimous October ruling in their favor, five anti-mining activists from the community of Santa Marta will be back on trial on February 3. The retrial sets a dangerous precedent, allowing the Attorney General to move a case to a different jurisdiction through an appeal in search of a …
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What's behind El Salvador's massive gold reserves sale?
El Salvador's reserve bank sold 5.412 tonnes of gold for $206 million, depleting its gold reserves from its previous holdings of 6.8 tonnes.
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Bukele's $3 Trillion Gamble: El Salvador's Mining Revival
The new law allows mining activities throughout the country, except in nature reserves and critical watersheds. Bukele claims El Salvador sits on a gold mine, literally. He suggests the country's untapped gold reserves could be worth up to $3 trillion, a staggering figure representing over 8,800% of the current GDP.
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El Salvador Faces Challenges in Gold and Silver Extraction after
The expert who defended El Salvador in international litigation against mining companies speaks with VOA about the risks the nation faces with the new mining law for gold and silver extraction, following international rulings that led to the prohibition of such activity in 2017. — El experto que defendió a El Salvador en litigios internacionales contra empresas mineras …
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Water Over Gold: 15 Reasons Why El Salvador Should Again Reject Gold Mining
El Salvador has one major watershed, the Lempa River, which supplies water to over half of the s in the country. The Lempa winds through the countryside where gold deposits are located. A major 2005 technical report on the feasibility of mining in El Salvador, known as the Moran Report, pointed out the problems of mining along the Lempa.
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Minera Titán, the Company Eyeing El Salvador's Gold — Minera …
In 2021, the government of Nayib Bukele invited NGOs and universities to participate in drafting a new law on metallic mining. While this was happening, a group of foreigners and a company, linked to a mining transnational that operated in Honduras, arrived in San Isidro, claiming to conduct social work and purchase land with mining potential. — En …
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El Salvador Eyes $3 Trillion Gold Mine Beneath Its …
President Nayib Bukele is now calling for a reversal of the landmark ban, claiming that beneath the country's fertile soil lies an untapped fortune. According to Bukele, the small Central American nation sits atop an …
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Mexico And El Salvador Ponder Different Mining Stances
Mexico's mining industry is a pillar of its economy, accounting for around 8% of its industrial GDP. In 2022, mining exports totaled $17.6 billion, generating a trade surplus of $12.8 billion.
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El Salvador and its mining potential: A historic opportunity
El Salvador, known for its cultural and geographic richness, now stands out for a promising mining potential related to its volcanic activity. President Nayib Bukele, through his X account, …
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El Salvador's Gold Mining Plans and Bitcoin Integration
El Salvador is making some pretty bold moves in the economic space. The country is looking to lift its gold mining ban to access around $3 trillion worth of mineral wealth. President Nayib Bukele is pitching that responsible mining coupled with Bitcoin integration could reshape the economy. But, what would this mean for global gold prices and the environment?
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El Salvador to restart mining | Business | Jamaica Gleaner
In November, the highly popular Bukele proposed gold mining. The county's unmined gold could be "wealth that could transform El Salvador", he wrote on the social platform X. At this point, exploration has revealed deposits of gold and silver, but there has been no large-scale metal mining. It's unclear how large the country's reserves ...
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Pac Rim Mining loses suit against El Salvador
The investment tribunal rejected the company's claims of having lost potential profits as a result of not being granted permits for the El Dorado gold mining project in the Central American country.
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Bukele and His Lawmakers Revive Mining in El Salvador — …
At the proposal of Nayib Bukele, the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador lifted the ban on metallic mining that had been in effect for six years. A new law, swiftly approved, authorizes the state to explore, exploit, extract, and process the country's natural resources in partnership with private companies. — A propuesta de Nayib Bukele, la Asamblea Legislativa …
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Major Mines & Projects | Salvador Mine
The Eocene (42 to 41 Ma) El Salvador porphyry copper deposit in the Indio Muerto district, northern Chile (26° 15' S Lat.), formerly thought to have formed at the culmination of a 9-m.y. period of episodic magmatism, is shown by new mapping, U-Pb and K-Ar geochronology, and petrologic data to have formed during the younger of two distinct but ...
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El Salvador: can gold mining be carried out without poisoning water?
Hundreds protested in El Salvador last Sunday (19 January) following the government's decision late last year to reverse a mining ban. President Nayib Bukele announced late last year that mining ...
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El Salvador discovers $3 trillion gold mine but no one …
President Nayib Bukele claims that El Salvador is sitting on $3 trillion worth of gold and is appealing for country to lift its 2017 ban on mining metals.
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