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Veladero Mine by Barrick Gold – San Juan, Argentina

 

Latin American is today the destination of billions of dollars of mining exploration and extraction investment. Hundreds and even thousands of mining projects are in the pipeline, some in exploratory phases while others are already extracting. Considering that mining is one of the planet’s most contaminating industries, the mining sector presents serious social and environmental challenge, magnified by the relatively poor capacity or willingness of the State to monitor mining projects for their negative externalities.

This problem if further aggravated by the difficulty of community and other stakeholders to obtain information from the State and from companies about mining, as government agencies generally withhold information about mining projects.

CEDHA is presently collecting information about mining projects, geographically mapping mining projects, publishing environmental studies and analyzing social and environmental impacts, correlating them with social and environmental resources and risks. One of the areas we are focused on is producing a glacier inventory in relation to mining investments. Below we offer the first results of our mining database, which is a project in progress with already more than 500 mining projects we are continuously loading online.

See CEDHA’s Mining Project Map (Zoom in after it loads!!!)

Download CEDHA’s Full Mining Project Database with over 500 projects in the region.

To contribute to our effort, to correct or add information to this map, or to help build our projact database please contact [email protected]



New Reports!

VELADERO & PASCUA LAMA PROJECTS (Barrick Gold)

EL MORRO (Goldcorp)

Periglacial Environment Study of the El Morro Project (in Spanish) 

LOS AZULES (Minera Andes–now McEwen Mining of Canada)

Communications CEDHA-Minera Andes

REPORT ON GLACIERS AND MINING IN LA RIOJA


EL PACHÓN (Xstrata Copper)

Specific Instance – OCDE (regarding El Pachón)

Technical Reports by CEDHA et.al. (on El Pachón)

Other Documents Related to El Pachón

Communications CEDHA-Xstrata

FILO COLORADO (Xstrata Copper) y AGUA RICA (Yamana Gold)

Technical Reports by CEDHA et.al. (on the Filo Colorado Project)

El ALTAR (Peregrine Metals)

El Altar Technical Report – March 21, 2011
El Altar Exploration Update – October 4, 2011

DEL CARMEN (Malbex)

MISC TECNICAL INFORMATION ON OTHER PROJECTS

Other Documents on Mining

Information on FRACKING (New)

Information on Lithium Projects (New)

 

 

 

 

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