Declaration of Indigenous Communities in Chubut, Argentina

Kailash — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:00:56 +0100

Despite open pit metal mining is banned in Chubut province since April 2003 by Law 5001 (passed by provincial legislative power following the Esquel referendum resulting in the cancellation of Meridian Gold proposed gold mine), the government have allowed exploration companies to find and develop mineral deposits which require this type of mining activities to be exploited.
At the end of last year Pan American Silver took over the Navidad silver-lead project from Aquiline Resources, showing that the industry is confident in overturning the provincial ban – and that the government has given st