Tag: gold mine

• Saturday, August 2nd 2025 - 10:28 UTC

  Bolivian mine landslide leaves 5 dead

  

  Five men died after being buried alive by a landslide at the state-owned Amayapampa gold mine in Potosí, Bolivia. The victims, who were not regular employees, had official permits to extract residual ore.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 06:50 UTC

  Gold becomes the main export of Bolivia in the eight months of 2021

  

  Gold, bullion, and jewellery have become Bolivia's main export in the first eight months of this year totalling almost seven billion dollars, considerably higher than the US$ 4.213,4 of the same period in 2020, which represents a 65,4% increase, according to the official INE stats office.

• Thursday, March 14th 2019 - 09:12 UTC

  Union halts operations at Argentina's biggest gold mine

  

  A strike at Canadian Goldcorp Inc’s Cerro Negro mine in Argentina has forced a halt to operations, the company said on Tuesday, calling the union’s action at its biggest mine illegal. Mining activities stopped when the strike by the Asociacion Obrera Minera Argentina (AOMA) union began on March 8, and processing is also now halted as surface stockpiles have run out, Vancouver-headquartered Goldcorp said in a statement.

• Friday, November 1st 2013 - 21:40 UTC

  Argentina warns Barrick on announced suspension of gold mine project

  

  Barrick, the world’s largest gold mining company, is indefinitely suspending construction of its troubled gold mine straddling the Chile-Argentine border, part of a cost-cutting effort that also involves 10 other mining projects around the world.

• Saturday, July 7th 2012 - 01:57 UTC

  Relief for Humala: major Army victory over Shinning Path, dilutes anti-mining violence

  

  Peruvian police captured 11 Shining Path rebels and freed 10 children thought to be in combat training, President Ollanta Humala said on Friday after a string of military setbacks and a week of anti-mining violence.

• Wednesday, July 4th 2012 - 18:37 UTC

  Argentine high court ruling delays mining in glacier and peri-glacier areas

  

  Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold Corp. suffered a legal setback on Tuesday as Argentina's Supreme Court reversed preliminary injunctions that have blocked key parts of a glacier protection law.

• Wednesday, February 1st 2012 - 06:34 UTC

  Canadian mining company says it wants a “social licence” for controversial project in Argentina

  

  The Canadian Osisko mining corporation has suspended a gold mining project in Argentina after protests by locals. Osisko said on Tuesday it would put its operation in north-western La Rioja province on hold if it did not get the backing of the local population which has been protesting for weeks.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2012 - 04:54 UTC

  Argentine province suspends open-pit gold mining project following protests

  

  Argentine authorities suspended Canadian firm Osisko’s open-pit gold mining project in the north-western province of La Rioja amid grassroots protests and considerations of a possible referendum on the whole project.

• Saturday, April 16th 2011 - 02:00 UTC

  Canadian company will develop gold mine project in Argentine Patagonia

  

  Argentina's Planning Ministry said Thursday that Canadian mining company Goldcorp Inc. (GG) will invest 850 million US dollars to put into production its Cerro Negro gold project in Santa Cruz Province.