Date: Thursday, June 5,
Time: 4 PM Colombia / 2 PM PST / 5 PM EST
This webinar will take place on Zoom with simultaneous Spanish-English interpretation.
Host - Sebastián Abad- AIDA
Panelists:
We, the undersigned Canadian civil society organizations, wish to express our deep solidarity with the Xinka people and their struggle for self-determination concerning the future of the Escobal mine, owned by Vancouver-based Pan American Silver. The Indigenous Xinka people have denied consent for...
On May 19, the Ecuadorian Chamber of Mining reported that a "free, prior and informed consultation process" had been approved for Canadian Dundee Precious Metals’ project. The Chamber says that “100% of the inhabitants of [Indigenous community of San Pedro de Escaleras] approved the advancement of...
Ontario’s Conservative government can’t seem to miss an opportunity to try to solve a problem by doing the wrong thing. In the face of US President Trump’s tariffs, the Ford government is pushing through an omnibus bill that would create “Special Economic Zones” for mining and infrastructure...
Equinox Gold indefinitely suspended its Los Filos mine in Guerrero, Mexico on April 1, 2025 when the company let lapse its land use and social cooperation agreements with the community of Carrizalillo. The company had been trying to pressure the community of Carrizalillo in Guerrero, Mexico into...
Photo Credit: No a La Mina Esquel
On April 22, a court in the south-central province of Chubut, Argentina handed down sentences to six environmental defenders who participated in the 2021 Chubutazo – a powerful province-wide protest that successfully derailed government attempts to impose a zoning...
Background
Vancouver based The Metals Company (TMC) holds concessions for exploration of polymetallic nodules in the Clarion Clipperton Zone, in Pacific international waters, granted to it through the International Seabed Authority (ISA) because of its partnerships with the Pacific Island country of...
The following blog was written by Diana Martin of MiningWatch Canada and María Alejandra Torres García of Earthworks.
Barrick Gold’s Annual General Shareholder Meeting (AGM) is virtual again this year. After last year’s AGM, the company announced it would “continue to host virtual-only annual general...
In 2022, [1] and again in 2024, [2] Indigenous Kuria from villages surrounding North Mara Gold Mine in Tanzania filed cases in Canada against Barrick Gold Corporation [3] (Barrick) for alleged “acts of extreme violence committed by Mine Police in the service of Barrick in and around the North Mara...
MiningWatch has long supported communities in Latin America who are protecting their lands and livelihoods from the harmful impacts of Canadian mining. Across the board, we’re seeing environmental defenders who speak out against these projects be hit with trumped-up criminal charges in an effort to...
More than 100 Chilean, Canadian, and other international organizations and coalitions published an open letter today in solidarity with environmental defenders who are being harassed and persecuted for defending their territory in southern Chile from a Canadian rare earths mining company.
The company...
Provincial governments and federal election candidates are falling over each other in a rush to expedite approvals for mining, as their response to the damage that US tariffs are just beginning to do to the Canadian economy. It’s important to take a closer look at what is really happening, what is...
This webinar will take place on Zoom with simultaneous Spanish-English interpretation. Register here.
DATE: Wednesday, May 7th
TIME: 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST
A year and a half after First Quantum Minerals’ Cobre Panama’s closure order and the historic nationwide protests against the mine, Panamanians...
An Argentinian court is expected to issue a ruling today in a case against eight community members from Chubut who participated in the 2021 “Chubutazo” – a powerful province-wide protest that succeeded in stopping government efforts to impose the Canadian-owned Navidad silver project and allow for...
MiningWatch Canada joins as a signatory to this letter to Equinox Gold, expressing deep concern over escalating tensions around the Canadian company's Los Filos mine in Mexico.
To Mr. Greg Smith
CEO & President, Equinox Gold
Re: Threats against Carrizalillo ejido and call for respectful negotiations
Th...