Administrative Tribunal Sides With Communities of Northern Costa Rica, Annuls Infinito Gold's Mining Concession
On Wednesday, November 24th, 2010, the Contentious Administrative Tribunal (TCA by its initials in Spanish) sided with the demand of organizations that form part of the Opposition Front to mining in the north of Costa Rica when it ordered the annulment of the concession for gold extraction granted to the transnational company Infinito Gold in the district of Crucitas de Cutris in San Carlos province, along the border of Costa Rica with Nicaragua.