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The study of the Ombudsman shows how the illegal exploitation of gold and coal, mainly done in 490 municipalities, i.e. 44% of the country. Illegal activity is sponsored in most cases by criminal gangs and caused damage to water sources and air.

In the case of Antioquia, the use of cyanide and mercury Affects Rivers environmentally Segovia, Remedies and Zaragoza in nearly a thousand times above international standards of the World Health Organization.

The departments with the most difficulties are: Córdoba, Boyacá, Risaralda, Quindío, Valle, Caldas and Antioquia. They nearly 15 000 families live in illegal mining.

The report of the Ombudsman also notes that last year were awarded mining rights in 122 hectares of moorland which supplies the regional water supply. This would put at risk of disappearing in 22 of those 34 areas. Something similar happens with the forest reserves of 51.5 million hectares, about 1.3 million is mining.

Under the heading Development and Competitiveness of the National Development Plan 2010-2016, State Government commitment in this administration will drive the installation of assembly plants, mining investment in the mountain region, as well as the promotion activities with their respective primary relationship with the municipalities of the entity.

With 9 floors and 124 maquiladoras expanded installed, continue betting on the exchange between countries and will continue to promote construction of transfer offices at academic institutions and industrial parks.

Wanted taqmbién thousand foreign investment 300 million to develop mining in the mountain areas, to attract more projects and more jobs and wealth in rural areas.

With new strategic projects, aims to develop the forestry industry for the growth of the mountainous area, for which roads are built and roads. He announced the investment of 2 thousand 995 kilometers of road, part of a six-year goal of building fronts highway 60, 768.5 miles of state roads, and 438.4 miles of state and heads feeders thousand kilometers of paved roads.

Stresses in the National Development Plan to build landing strips of Morelos, and Timorous Bologna. Task is scheduled in conjunction with municipalities for road works that strengthen, and the peripheral Jorge Castillo Career Cuauhtémoc.

Also contemplated is the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan, which includes bus rapid transit that is transported to the citizens in a dignified and safe to raise their quality of life. This project will also take place in Ciudad Juarez, Cuauhtémoc, Delicious, and Parra.

The court is supporting him with tractors and equipment replacement of pumping equipment, among others. It has also been improved livestock genetics, to streamline the supply chain.

The Inter-American Development Bank will invest in the development of a macro to expand production and export it from cattle, pigs and others that generate thousands of jobs in the production chain.

The meat sector, agriculture and forestry lactic link it to the export market with the most demanding markets like the U.S., Asia and Europe.

SANTIAGO, June 26 (Reuters) – The largest copper producer in the world, Chile’s Codec, would drop by half the production of its giant Chuquicamata mine in the coming years, implying a decrease in staffing, said President signing the local newspaper El Mercuric.

The state-owned Codec working to extend the life of Chuquicamata, a centenary in the field north of the country will cease to operate in the open to become underground.

“Consider that Chuquicamata has production of 600,000 tons (per year) and can reach less than 300,000 (tons) in the coming years,” said Diego Hernandez in an interview published Sunday. He added that only about 2020 would be resumed at current levels.

The head of the company did not rule out that the modernization of Chuquicamata contemplates retirement plan for staff.

“The idea is to have this year’s clear what needs dotacionales year to year and start discussing how to plan for reduced manning (personnel), which is inevitable,” said Hernandez.

Last Wednesday, the mine workers blocked the access roads to the site for about five hours, very demanding job security amid plans to transform the operation of the site.

LIEUTENANT STRIKE LOSSES

Codec also faces the remnants of a strike by employees of contractors that affected operations at its El Tenanted mine, although on Friday reported that it was producing 90 percent of its capacity to 132,000 tons per day of copper.

According to Hernandez, the protests were meant to leave the company to earn 100 million dollars.

“There are 100 million dollars that we win all Chileans mobilizations. The contractors in more than 60 percent and reached agreement on an individual basis with their union and are working, “he said.

Hernandez said that Codec will seek to revise the model has to work with contractors in order to get more specialized entities. “They also should review the contracts,” he said.

He also explained that the recent capitalization approved by the Chilean Government to Codec, 376 million dollars in profits in 2010, “almost” covers the amount that they needed to finance the investment plan 2011.

“We have 1,000 million dollars of E-CL (assets of an electricity company that sold), 1,500 million and depreciation and amortization with this and we fund investments this year,” estimated at around 3,000 million dollars, said the official, who reiterated that it would prevent having to resort to credit.

Hernandez said that with the structural projects scheduled over the next five or six years, the company will face the next 40 years quietly.

Codec has investment plan of $ 17.348 million by 2015.

Likewise, Hernandez denied that there are plans to privatize the company. “It’s not going to privatize the company and should not promote a discussion on this issue,” he said.

He estimated that “probably” the company is worth about 60,000 million dollars.

The miner, which gives all profits to the state surplus recorded in 2010, income before income taxes and extraordinary items, for 5.799 million dollars, representing an annual increase of 47 percent.

The Canadian mining company announced that Bear Creek Mining will use the FTA between Peru and Canada to defend the continuity of the project investment and mining Santa Ana (silver), overruled by the supreme decree suspends mining concessions in Puno, which he said is illegal and baseless.

“The company intends to launch an immediate and vigorous defense of their rights to Santa Ana through all available means, including the provisions under the Free Trade Agreement Canada-Peru and Peruvian appeals process,” said Andrew Swarthiest, CEO of Bear Creek.

Through a statement, the executive said the company complied with all legal requirements for obtaining their rights under the Supreme Decree 083-2007-EM, which was annulled by the supreme decree published this weekend as part the agreement between the Asmara and government leaders to end the anti-mining protest in Chucuito.

Proved a success in the region during “Monitor Mine Safety” offered by the Ministry of Mining to 28 people through the Modernization and Assistance Program for Small Scale Mining (EAP).

After a week of classes, pupils and students received their certification from the SEREMI Mining, Alfredo Arriagada and qualified teachers brought to Arica especially for teaching these courses.

Along with receiving diplomas, the trainees also obtained a grant of compensation of ten thousand dollars per day attended (50 thousand per student), as well as personal protective vest, shoes, helmet, eye protection, ear and respiratory and other implements.

The SEREMI Arriagada said the Government through the Ministry of Mines has set a goal of strengthening human capital in safety, especially in sectors such as artisanal mining. “Thus by PAMM strengthen and implement the monitor on mine safety in 1000 tasks throughout our country, being complementary regional initiatives,” he said.

“This training can provide small-scale miners knowledge to work safely in their tasks. The Region of Arica and Parinacota and has 28 mining safety monitors, who have today with a credential that certifies the Sernageomin as such, “he explained,

They are all small miners and pirquineros over 5 years of experience who will share the knowledge acquired during the course and take the lead for security to their tasks and co-workers.

Millennia Araya, course participants welcomed the opportunity to get these conociemitos as “much needed”. “We had clear legal aspects that we have deficiencies take away that we can now solve,” he said, while highlighting the work of government public services to mining relation arranged in Arica and Parinacota as SEREMI, Sernageomin and Enemy.

A verification mission on the effects of mining against the Food Sovereignty and the criminalization of social protest worked days in counties close to the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca, where from June 21 this is done the Continental Yale Anya Peoples in Defense of Water and Pachamama.

The Canadian firm IAMGOLD, who won the award of exploration and exploitation of gold deposits in the desert of Kimsacocha, appears as the main threat to water sources in the third metropolis of Ecuador. Although not the only one.

However, experience not so distant in time has enabled communities to know the harmful effects of mining to food production and access to irrigation water and drinking water. And based on that, articulated their resistance.

This was reported to people in neighboring parishes as Torque Cuenca, Groin, and Cochapata, Santa Isabel and San Juan de Goalies the members of the Verification Mission on the Right to Food and the criminalization of social protest.

This working group was composed of members of the organization FIAN Ecuador, the coordinator of the Continental Shelf of Human Rights Pablo De la Vega and journalists from Radio Undo Real.

The preliminary report of the tour will be presented this Tuesday under the Continental Encounter of the Peoples of Anya Yale in defense of Mother Earth and water and spread internationally with a documentary that brings together various accounts.

The meeting also brings together a panel of international integration of ethics to consider the cases of criminalization against the defenders of the right and water as a human right.

Cañar said Arnulfo respect to Real World Radio in his parish, St. Bartholomew, “in our parish and have experience with a miner who worked here 20 years ago and still suffer the consequences. To be silent would be part of mine. ”

The silver mining and minerals for the production of pottery literally poisoned their water sources until the business ceased to be profitable and the company dropped its facilities, leaving a puddle that cannot be used for water harvesting due to high levels of heavy metals it contains.

A mine worker died in an accident in the tunnel raised the coal mining company located in Black Hill Company Baths sector Chime province in the region La Libertad.

The victim was identified as Jose Ruben Diaz Saldana (49), who worked 150 meters from the admit of the mine when a rock came loose and fell on his back.

Even wounded man was taken to the medical station of El Molino, where doctors were limited only to certify death.

José Sultana Diaz, a native of the village of Tambopuquio Casks district, leaving four children in the orphanage and the managers of the mining company offered help. However, family workers and require compensation for those affected.

For some, Concordia is the first rock avalanche of 16 mining concessions in the state have and intend to mine gold in the open, technically banned in Costa Rica and Germany about the risks of water pollution, the use of thousands of tons cyanide.

Another one of those mining in Baja California Sur is Patella Mining Company SA de CV, owned by U.S. company Argonaut Capital Gold, which scans an area of ​​more than 46 hectares, beside the town of San Antonio.

“We’re changing a paradise, Baja California Sur, a wooded oasis in the desert in exchange for mirrors, gold-mining it generates few jobs and is highly polluting,” says Austin Bravo Gladiola Excelsior, representative of the Mexican Center Environmental Law in La Paz.

As of June 2009 there were 263 foreign mining projects in Mexico by 677, 64% correspond to the extraction of gold and silver. Eight percent operational phase and the other in exploration. 75% are Canadian companies, some registered in Canada with American capital, and 15% in the U.S., according to the Summary of Key Indicators of Mining 2009.

In Mexico, foreign mining companies do not pay a penny of their profits to the government, only disburse a tax of 5.08 pesos per hectare for extracting semi-metal-imposed the first two years, reaching the maximum pay is 111.27 pesos per hectare when they reach the eleventh year of the grant.
Biosphere Reserve

Getting to the Sierra la Laguna is a feat that can only be achieved aboard a 4×4 vehicle, there surprised it the giant cacti and cactus papaya and, hopefully, the frantic race for a runner.

The area is home to the only pine-oak forest of Baja California Sur, habitat of the coyote, cougar and 40 species of reptiles. In 1994 it was declared a biosphere reserve by the former President Carlos Salinas, and the decree prohibiting dumping toxic substances in soil or groundwater, and then there is the main aquifer in the state.

Nevertheless, in 1997 the Ministry of Social Development (SEDESOL)-responsible for the permits, granted the environmental clearance Escobar Company to exploit gold in the Sierra la Laguna, the Yellow Walls Mining project. The company also won the concession for the exploitation of the Directorate General of Mines, the Ministry of Economy.

“I had to review the Environmental Impact Assessment (MIA) that presented the mine in 1997 for the authorization, was head of the Office of Environmental Impact, what worried me was that the tailings dam-pool where you place toxic waste from the mine would be built 11 meters of the river and a flood could drag the debris, “said Mario Rodriguez.

A report on the risk, however, the then Office of Environmental Impact authorized the mining project “was a project authorized by steam,” he complained. But in the late 90′s, a fall in gold prices made Escobar leave the country and sold its mining concession Yellow Walls, the company Vista Gold.

La Paz, Baja California Sur .- As part of the celebrations of World Environment Day taking place this week, Baja California Sur District Association of Mining Engineers, Metallurgists and Geologists of Mexico (AIMMGM) declared to Alejandro Alvarez engineer through its district president, that “today is more urgent than ever to disclose the number of shares in the development of its operation, making the mining industry to avoid or mitigate environmental impacts, while contributes to the production of raw materials essential to the welfare of modern society. ”

While recognizing that in the past mining activity, like all industrial, agricultural and livestock negatively impacted the natural environment, there are now sufficient legal and technological instruments to minimize the chances of contaminating soil, water or air as a result of processes of underground mining land, said the state district president of the Association referred.

Finally, he indicated that “the mining industry has every interest in maintaining a healthy environment and to demonstrate that a mining operation is compatible with all other human activities, whether commercial, industrial and even tourism, as evidenced by statements and Durango, Zacatecas, Sonora, Chihuahua, to name just a few of the organizations most active northern mining and tourism, “

The national and international press as Monica christened “Bulldozer” Caracal because trucks driving large mining equipment and was the only rescue of 33 miners trapped in the San José mine. He did so well that Sherman and Mineral Isla Crisco invited her to tell her story to other women at the seminar “Challenges for Women Magellan: nontraditional jobs.” The event is scheduled for Friday at the headquarters of Inca. The day begins at 8:30 and ends near the 13 horas.Carvajal appreciated the efforts by public and private open spaces for women employment of Magellan.

He said that women have much to contribute to workforce development in the country. The mining and handling of heavy machinery by women are perfectly feasible, and puts his experience as Caracal ejemplo.También visited Isla Crisco and highlighted the company’s policy to integrate women in a field still limited in the ability to access. On occasion he met with the General Manager of Mineral Isla Crisco, Jorge Pedals and had the opportunity to meet some of the productive activities that are developed on the island.

He visited an agritourism initiative that exists on the island, such as the Estancia Fitz Roy. “The mining project considered to favor the recruitment and training, mostly local labor. The challenge is that at least 80% of workers are in the area and we want to encourage training and hiring of women in our project, “said Patricio Alvarado, manager of Corporate Affairs and Environment.

The works will require hiring more than 800 people during the construction phase and a figure close to 700 for the period of operation, creating a demand for labor-friendly throughout the region. “Keep in mind that these new jobs are associated with a modern mining operation, with the latest equipment, as this will require a strong energy and training staff to be hired at a regional level,” he reiterated Alvarado . Caracal Monica finally had the opportunity to meet with Sandra Ojeda, Magellan handled only heavy machinery. Both exhibited at the seminar shared experiences and discussed in the seminar “Challenges for Women Magellan jobs nontraditional” experiences.