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Ecuador Grants Open-Pit Mining Permits in One of the World's Most Biodiverse Areas. A pristine ecology is under threat. by Sophie Moon, Truthout April 1, 2018. Truthout Toggle Donation Bar. The stakes have never been higher. The stakes have never been higher.
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This outlined a 10-year open-pit operation producing, on average, 21,390 t/y of copper-equivalent over the 10-year life-of-mine, alongside 20,000 t/y of copper-equivalent payable output from years 11-14 from the underground.
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Open-pit mining is the process of extracting rock or minerals from an open-pit mine. In extractive industries, it refers to a method of extracting stones such as iron ore and bauxite. Open-pit mining is when the deposit of valuable material is near the surface. The excavation process uses heavy machinery that removes larger, valuable rocks, and ...
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Here, w e focus on the " Mirador " mining project, an open pit copper mine in the Cordillera del Cóndor, a mountain range along the Ecuador/Peru border that hosts a high level of endemism. We show a series of satellite images that highlight both the environmental impacts, such as the deforestation of over 3,200 acres, and social impacts ...
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Federal officials have approved two open-pit phosphate mines in East Idaho that include environmental protections intended to prevent the type of pollution caused by past phosphate mining in the area.
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In my view, the big advantages of underground mining over open pit mining are sequencing and selectivity. With underground mining you can target which areas of the orebody you want to mine and when. ... 16-12 - Cornerstone signs definitive joint exploration agreement with Ecuador's State Mining Company, ENAMI EP; 15-04 - Cornerstone Announces ...
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Mine Type: Open Pit. Rio Blanco Copper S.A. is located in Piura region, northern Peru, close to the Ecuador border, on the eastern side of Andes, 51% owned by Godtfred Gems. ... The total ore resources of Rio Blanco copper mine is 12.57 billion tonnes at a grade of 0.57%, and the total reserves is 500 million tonnes, at a grade of copper 0.63% ...
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"Large-scale mining needs to have clear rules, but the big question remains if we really want open-pit mining," Acosta said in the interview. Ecuador has no significant output of precious metals, but dozens of junior firms are exploring for copper and gold, including Canada's Aurelian Resources, Corriente Resources, and IamGold Corp.
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Apr 9, 2021The Cascabel copper-gold project is one of the most ambitious mining developments in Ecuador. ... Right-wing Guillermo Lasso is said to be pro-mining, but he wants to ban open-pit extraction ...
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In 2010 Costa Rica banned open-pit mining, and today has socioeconomic indicators better than Ecuador's. Costa Rica also provides a ' Payment for Ecosystem Services' to landholders, and through this scheme has actually increased its rainforest area (from 20% to just over 50%). Ecology vs economy
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The Curipamba open pit polymetallic mine in Ecuador will yield a net present value (NPV) of US$259 million at an 8% discount rate, a Prefeasibility Study from Advantus Mining and Salazar Resources has found. The mine will produce gold, silver, lead, copper, and zinc. The open pit mine will have a mine life of 10 years, with an after-tax ...
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Open Pit Mining | Protect Ecuador OPEN-PIT MINING Open-pit mining General Overview It usually involves the creation of a pit that extends below the groundwater table. LEARN MORE Heavy Metal Contamination & Leaching Heavy metal leaching is particularly accelerated in the low pH conditions. LEARN MORE Acid Mine Drainage
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Mining there dates back more than a century and has resulted in two open pits, including one that has been blocking a salmon spawning stream since the 1930s. The site has extensive tailings left...
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The $1.4 billion Mirador open-pit mine, owned by a joint venture of Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group and China Railway Construction, is the country's only large-scale copper mine. According to...
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Feb 10, 2013The Canadian firm announced it would build an open-pit copper mine dwarfing anything in Ecuador's history. The mine required hollowing out one of the region's largest mountains and clear-cutting...
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MINERALS: Gold TERM: Start date of the expansion project for 2021. OPERATOR: Equinox Gold LOCATION: Guerrero DESCRIPTION: US$213 million. The project includes the expansion of the open pit mine, the development of a second underground mine (Bermejal), the addition of a new open pit mine (Guadalupe) and the construction of a new CIL plant for the processing of higher pound sterling ore.
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In February, he told Reuters "I don't like mining, and open-pit is even worse, but it's impossible to think of modern life without mining and it would be irresponsible not to use those resources ...
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Open pit mining refers to mining directly on the ground surface, thereby producing an open pit. This method is practical and cost-effective when the uranium ore is located near the surface (e.g., within 100 m). Underground mining and ISL methods may be considered for sites that have uranium ores at deeper depths.
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Open Pit NI 43-101 Feasibility Study • After-tax Feasibility Study IRR of 32% and NPV 8% of US$259 million for initial open-pit development only • 77% of life-of-mine revenues from payable copper and gold • Production C1 cash cost of US$1.14/lb and AISC of US$1.26/lb copper equivalent
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Yet mining companies with interests in the region have said they will not respect the referendum results. While the newly-elected President of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, is associated with pro-mining policies and statements, environmental coalitions plan to keep up the pressure to ensure he honors a pre-election pledge to ban open-pit mining ...
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Peru: Farmers Launch Indefinite Strike Against Major Open-Pit Mining Project Sectors of Peruvian society including unions joined local farmers in peaceful protests, setting up roadblocks in the Tambo valley in the central region of Arequipa. Their aim is to express their disagreement and rejection of the project.
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Ecuador seen on track to become a major mining country ... Friday, June 03, 2022 . Open pit mining Metals processing ... exploration and extraction of mineral resources Underground mining Gold ...
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Although the Mirador open-pit mine is one of the most controversial projects in Ecuador, several other projects by Chinese companies have sparked social unrest and court cases across the Latin American nation. ... While mining is fairly new to Ecuador, the commercial exploration of oil has been essential to its economy for many years. In 2018 ...
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Mining Methods Truck & Shovel / Loader Summary: The feasibility study is based on conventional open pit mining of the porphyry copper deposit. The deposit is covered by an average 22 m depth of overburden and a leached cap, a portion of which must be pre-stripped to access the orebody.
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On Jan. 26, citizens published a letter outlining their social, scientific, and environmental arguments for rejecting the PL128/20 project which seeks to initiate open-pit mining activities in the Chubut plateau's north-central region.
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The previously studied plan was the equivalent of an inverted open pit, with limited selectivity, that would likely have resulted in the mining of larger volumes of waste material.
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Ecuador is the only Andean nation without any large-scale metallic mines (such as gold and copper). This unique state of affairs is about to be tested in the next few weeks when the Correa government signs exploitation agreements with Chinese and Canadian transnational miners looking to exploit the country's copper and gold reserves.
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Spanish. (combined with E-Tech overview) On November 16 and 18, 2015, E-Tech International presented technical models of the impacts of a tailings dam failure downstream of the Chinese Ecuacorriente Mirador Mine in the Cordillera del Condor of Ecuador. A tailings failure would impact the Rio Santiago that enters Peru and subsequently the ...
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Mar 3, 2022The Curipamba project will be developed as a conventional open-pit mining operation, which will involve haul trucks, hydraulic excavators, and loaders. The pit is envisaged to be mined in five phases based on ore type over the mine life. Hydraulic excavators with a maximum bucket capacity of 3.3m³ will be used to load the waste rock in 10m benches.
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March 6, 2013 Analysis An amicus letter expressing concern about the Mirador open-pit mine has been filed in a court in Ecuador. The letter was signed by the Earth Law Center, the Council of Canadians/ Blue Planet Project, Food & Water Watch, and the Polis Project on Ecological Governance at the University of Victoria.
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The current pit measures about 2.5km east-west, 3.0km north-south, and has a maximum depth of 950m. Mining by open pit methods commenced in 1976 and has continued since then. Ore production is 90ktpd. SBlock software (Esterhuizen, 2004) was used for the bench berm design.
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Recognizing the grave health implications of using mercury, the Ecuadorian government is looking to convert the Nambija mine into an open-pit mine that would eliminate the use of mercury and increase gold production yield by 200%.
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The Mirador mining project is one of five strategic mining projects in Ecuador, and the first large-scale open-pit mining project in the country's history. It is located in the parishes of Tundayme, Quimi, and El Guismi, in southern Ecuador, at 1,000 metres above sea level in the Condor mountain range.
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It is located in the Condor Mountain Range (Cordillera del Condor), home to several indigenous communities, an area particularly rich in biodiversity, surrounded by dense cloud forest. But the...
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But Ecuador's forthcoming constituent assembly to re-write the country's constitution could possibly ban open pit mining (which is the type Ascendant would use), as well as all large-scale mining projects.
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