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...
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...
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...
On Thursday, March 6th, four members of the peaceful resistance to protect the Kimsakocha páramo in Southern Ecuador – all of them women, and one of them a senior citizen – were attacked by a group of five women carrying various objects like sticks, scissors, and a heavy padlock on a small...
On Sunday, representatives of the community of Carrizalillo, a community of 3,500 located roughly 500 metres from the cyanide leaching pad of Equinox Gold’s Los Filos mine in Guerrero, Mexico, sent a letter to CEO and President Greg Smith. The correspondence denounces a surprise visit to the...
This open letter was written by Proyecto Dulcepamba and was originally posted in Spanish here. Translation by MiningWatch Canada, who is also a signatory.
Three community leaders were sentenced to four years in prison by the Bolívar Criminal Court. The defenders were convicted of an alleged act of...
On Monday, the Committee for the Defence of Water and Páramo of Santurbán, Colombia rallied outside the Ministry of the Environment in Bogota, Colombia. They presented more than 4,000 signatures to Vice Minister Mauricio Cabrera demanding that a Temporary Reserve Area in the Santurbán region of the...
The Ejido of Carrizalillo has written an open letter to Equinox Gold CEO Greg Smith and Board Chairman Ross Beaty calling on the company to commit to fair negotiations of their temporary land use and social agreements for the operations of the Los Filos mine in Guerrero, Mexico. The agreements are...
Communities in Ecuador are denouncing an attempt to advance a consultation in the southern community of Escaleras on the issue of mining – a consultation they say is being carried out with only a select handful of people and one that is not necessary, given communities have already voted against...
