Oct 17, 2016· Last Friday, the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes declared without merit Pacific Rim/OceanaGold’s $250-million lawsuit against El Salvador.
Oct 14, 2016· OceanaGold estimates El Dorado holds 1.5 million ounces of gold and 11.4 million ounces of silver resources. the next steps for its El Salvador unit. Pacific Rim
The Guardian El Salvador groups accuse Pacific Rim of 'assault on democratic governance' [click to view] MICLA [click to view] Aliados Internacionales contra la Mineria Metálica en El Salvador No a la Mineria Metalica [click to view] Pacific Rim Mining Corp, El Dorado, El Salvador
Oct 21, 2014· Pacific Rim entered El Salvador in 2002, when a pro-business president governed and long before anti-mining sentiment surged. The company’s lawyers told the
The El Dorado gold/silver project is located 65 km east of San Salvador in South America, and could produce some 80 497 gold-equivalent ounces over about six years, according to a 2005
Oct 21, 2014· Pacific Rim entered El Salvador in 2002, when a pro-business president governed and long before anti-mining sentiment surged. The company’s lawyers told the
Pacific Rim’s proposed El Dorado gold mine is located six miles west of Sensuntepeque, the capital of the Cabañas region of El Salvador, near the town of San Isidro.7 The company has indicated that its El Dorado site contains approximately 1.4 million gold equivalent ounces.8 Pacific Rim’s plan is for an
Mining has also caused social conflict and violence in communities still struggling to overcome the effects of El Salvador’s civil war (1980–92). Pacific Rim targets funds for scholarships, schools, and other benefits to municipalities (and mayors) not directly impacted by mining, creating friction with those communities that are affected.
2. I am currently the President and Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) of Pacific Rim Mining Corp., which is the ultimate corporate parent of Pac Rim Cayman LLC (“Pac Rim Cayman”) and its two Salvadoran subsidiaries, Pacific Rim El Salvador, S.A. de C.V. (“PRES”) and
Oct 21, 2014· Pacific Rim entered El Salvador in 2002, when a pro-business president governed and long before anti-mining sentiment surged. The company’s lawyers told the
Oct 21, 2014· Pacific Rim entered El Salvador in 2002, when a pro-business president governed and long before anti-mining sentiment surged. The company’s lawyers told the
Oct 14, 2016· OceanaGold estimates El Dorado holds 1.5 million ounces of gold and 11.4 million ounces of silver resources. the next steps for its El Salvador unit. Pacific Rim
The petitioners counter-claim that, by using cyanide to leach the gold ore, the purity of El Salvador's main water source would be jeopardised. They say that: "Pacific Rim is using ICSID and the investor-state rules in a free trade agreement to subvert a democratic nationwide debate over mining and sustainability in El Salvador.
The El Dorado gold/silver project is located 65 km east of San Salvador in South America, and could produce some 80 497 gold-equivalent ounces over about six years, according to a 2005
The case against Pacific Rim, and metallic mining generally in El Salvador, has been effectively articulated by the Mesa. Large-scale gold mining operations, the Mesa argues—especially the water-intensive cyanide ore process used by companies like Pacific Rim—pose a significant threat to rural economies and local drinking water supplies.
Pacific Rim estimates the mine contains 1.2 million ounces of gold and 7.4 million ounces of silver. The company claims that between 2002 and 2006 it invested $77 million in exploration and infrastructure, making El Dorado the company's largest investment in El Salvador.
Mining has also caused social conflict and violence in communities still struggling to overcome the effects of El Salvador’s civil war (1980–92). Pacific Rim targets funds for scholarships, schools, and other benefits to municipalities (and mayors) not directly impacted by mining, creating friction with those communities that are affected.
May 14, 2011· There has been no large-scale gold mining in El Salvador since the start of its civil war in 1980, but applications for gold mining permits increased in the early 2000s as gold prices began to rise. Pacific Rim received an exploratory permit in 2002, and as it proceeded through the permitting process, alarm spread through local communities.
2. I am currently the President and Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) of Pacific Rim Mining Corp., which is the ultimate corporate parent of Pac Rim Cayman LLC (“Pac Rim Cayman”) and its two Salvadoran subsidiaries, Pacific Rim El Salvador, S.A. de C.V. (“PRES”) and
Pacific Rim is suing El Salvador for more than 77 million dollars over the government’s refusal to approve a permit for a cyanide-leach gold mining project along the Lempa River, which is the main water source for a majority of the nation’s population.
Pacific Rim has estimated that there are gold deposits of 1.4 million ounces at its El Dorado exploration site in Cabañas, 65 kilometres east of the capital city of San Salvador.
Jul 25, 2010· The El Dorado gold mine in the department of Cabañas is part of a fifty-kilometer-wide band of gold stretching through Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua parallel to the Pacific Coast. The nearest town is San Isidro, where most people survive by farming small plots or
Apr 05, 2009· Through its Nevada-based subsidiary, Pacific Rim plans to sue El Salvador under the Central America Free Trade Agreement to recoup some of the $75 million it has invested in the El
Oct 14, 2016· OceanaGold estimates El Dorado holds 1.5 million ounces of gold and 11.4 million ounces of silver resources. the next steps for its El Salvador unit. Pacific Rim first applied for a
The El Dorado gold/silver project is located 65 km east of San Salvador in South America, and could produce some 80 497 gold-equivalent ounces over about six years, according to a 2005
Oct 21, 2014· Pacific Rim entered El Salvador in 2002, when a pro-business president governed and long before anti-mining sentiment surged. The company’s lawyers told the tribunal that activists
Jun 01, 2010· On the eve of World Bank/CAFTA hearing June 1, 2010 in DC, protestors call attention to Pacific Rim's suing El Salvador for not permitting mining gold that would poison half of their rivers
The case against Pacific Rim, and metallic mining generally in El Salvador, has been effectively articulated by the Mesa. Large-scale gold mining operations, the Mesa argues—especially the water-intensive cyanide ore process used by companies like Pacific Rim
Jun 11, 2012· Its three members ruled that a foreign company may continue to sue El Salvador for not letting the company mine gold there. The impoverished Central American country could potentially be forced to pay a Canadian mining company called Pacific Rim $77 million or more in damages. This anti-democratic ruling has ominous implications for all of us.
The El Dorado gold/silver project is located 65 km east of San Salvador in South America, and could produce some 80 497 gold-equivalent ounces over about six years, according to a 2005
Oct 14, 2016· OceanaGold estimates El Dorado holds 1.5 million ounces of gold and 11.4 million ounces of silver resources. the next steps for its El Salvador unit. Pacific Rim
Dec 15, 2011· Pacific Rim is suing El Salvador for more than 77 million dollars over the government's refusal to approve a permit for a cyanide-leach gold mining project along the Lempa River, which is the main water source for a majority of the nation's population.
Jun 01, 2010· On the eve of World Bank/CAFTA hearing June 1, 2010 in DC, protestors call attention to Pacific Rim's suing El Salvador for not permitting mining gold that would poison half of their rivers with
IPS news reports protestors rallied in front of World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, "hoping to persuade a tribunal housed there to dismiss a case brought by Pacific Rim Mining Corporation against the government of El Salvador." Pacific Rim is a Canadian firm which used its incorporation in Nevada to use an investor-state dispute clause in the DR-CAFTA (more below) to sue
Link to video regarding the murders in El Salvador, of those who have opposed Pacific Rim’s Gold Mine development in Cabañas. When the video was made, only one person had been killed. Now, three anti-mining activists have been killed, and it is very difficult to make a case that these deaths have been unrelated to the mining interest.
An arbitration case brought by Pacific Rim Mining against the government of El Salvador will move ahead, as the arbitration tribunal has now been constituted, the company reported on Thursday.
In November 2004, Pacific Rim Mining Corporation vested sole ownership rights in Pac Rim El Salvador in its subsidiary, Pac Rim Cayman, a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands and the Claimant in this case. In 2004, Pac Rim Cayman discovered substantial gold ore deposits in El Salvador and it applied for the necessary exploitation licenses
Using its unique understanding of epithermal gold systems in the Central American Gold Belt, particularly within El Salvador, Pacific Rim has been very successful in locating new, high grade gold-bearing systems in the past and is ideally equipped to apply this formula for discovery to neighbouring jurisdictions and elsewhere along the Pacific Rim.
He served as a director of Midas Gold Corp. from April 2011 May 2014. Mr. Earnest has over 30 years’ experience in the mining industry, including President of Pacific Rim El Salvador, and previously as General Manager and Legal Representative for Compania Minera Dayton in Chile.
Apr 01, 2013· Pacific Rim Mining Corp El Salvador has breached the Salvadoran Investment Law by refusing to issue the necessary mining licences for the El Dorado gold project. Had El Salvador
But Pacific Rim didn’t sit idly by as democracy worked its way from El Salvador’s northern communities to its national government. The company sought a mining license.
Jun 10, 2015· El Salvador has already spent more than $12m defending itself against Pacific Rim, but even if it succeeds in beating the company's $284m claim, it may never recover these costs. For years Salvadoran protest groups have been calling on the World Bank to initiate an open and public review of ICSID. To date, no such study has been carried out.