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Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine

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YSUCA The Cerro Blanco mine is located just 15 kilometres from the border with El Salvador, in the municipality of Asunción Mita in the department of Jutiapa, Guatemala. Since 2006, the project has posed a threat for El Salvador as several border towns may be impacted by the contamination r...

Study reveals the threats of the Cerro Blanco mine

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ACAFREMIN Cerro Blanco a mining project operated by Canadian company bluestone resources is located in the municipality of Asunción Mita, Guatemala. The Cerro Blanco mine could endanger the lives of more than half a million inhabitants due to the ...

Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala

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* Edgardo Ayala - Contrapunto Despite of a two year mining prohibition, the ghost of mining does not fade away for communities in El Salvador that are exposed to crossborder contamination that may cause irreversible environmental damage to their limited water resources.  ASUNCIÓN MITA, Gua...

Cross border mining will be the next phase of the anti-mining struggle in El Salvador

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Gloria Silvia Orellana - Diario CoLatino "My mother was the daughter of miners and when I told her everything that happened here (in El Salvador) she told me that when her father finished working (in a mining project) the area was left deserted and the damaged, and the impacts are similar in...

Sanches Ceren will prevent mining in the Trifinio región.

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Due the risk of contaminating key bodies of water shared by the three countries Translated from:  http://elecciones2014.elsalvador.com/articulo/sanchez-ceren-evitara-mineria-trifinio-976 Vice President Salvador Sanchez Ceren was emphatic in his statement that he will advocate for the suspe...

Governments of Guatemala and El Salvador forced to respond to community concerns regarding the Cerro Blanco mining project

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San Salvador, Feb. 26th, 2013 Over two hundred Members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador, La Mesa, held a rally this morning in front of the Guatemalan Embassy in San Salvador to deliver a letter addressed to Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina to express conce...

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