MAAP #115: Illegal Gold Mining in the Amazon, part 1: Peru

According to our analysis of governmental information (see Annex 2), the recent mining activity is likely illegal because: a) much of it occurs outside of titled mining …

Mining Concessions

Areas allocated by governments to companies for extraction of minerals (mining). A concession is a license, permit, or other contract that gives private companies the rights to extract minerals from public lands. This dataset is a compilation of data from government agencies, non …

SQM updates shareholders over delayed Codelco lithium deal

Among expected terms, which will allow SQM to continue to operate in the Atacama salt flat from 2031 to 2060, SQM reiterated it plans to transfer to Codelco its mining concessions in Maricunga, a ...

| Overview map illustrating coal mining concessions and …

Some sampling stations are located outside the map extent and are not included in this figure. ... Overview map illustrating coal mining concessions and protected natural reserves in the Hwange ...

Spotlight: Mining law in Chile

The owners of mining concessions must pay a yearly mining fee equivalent to approximately US$1.26 per hectare in the case of exploration concessions, and approximately US$6.3 per hectare in the ...

Making Concessions: Extractive Enclaves, Entangled Capitalism …

Orpaillage mining is officially presented as occurring outside official concessions and typically represented as controlled by a mafia, where "it is impossible to know who is responsible", where "there are drugs and prostitution", and "it shouldn't be allowed, but the state is too poor". 6 In sum, they are represented as spaces of ...

Korat locals rally against new potash mining concessions

The protesters gathered outside the front gate of the Rajabhat Rangsarit Hall of Rajabhat Nakhon Ratchasima University at 9am for a chance to submit a letter to Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, demanding that no more potash mining concessions be granted in the province, which is also known as Korat.

Mexico says lithium concessions under review after Ganfeng …

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday said the country's lithium concessions are being reviewed, after China's Ganfeng 002460.SZ last month indicated that its Mexican ...

Mining concessions | Land Portal

This data set displays mining concessions as a single layer assembled by aggregating concession data for multiple countries. The data may come from government agencies, NGOs, or other organizations and varies by date and data sources. For more information on concession data for each country please visit the Global Forest Watch Open …

Conservation threatened by mining concessions in Mexico

One of Mexico's largest corporations is close to winning government approval to reopen a sprawling mine in Angangueo, right next to the most important winter habitat of North …

Josh and Mak International

Mining Concessions under Large Scale Mining. ... Applications from aliens or companies incorporated outside Pakistan are subject to Rule 99, which requires such licenses or leases to be granted or assigned to a company incorporated in Pakistan for …

Coeur Mining, Inc. | Coeur Announces Agreement to Acquire Concessions …

Transaction rationalizes land package to the East of existing operations and unlocks significant near-term and longer-term resource potential Coeur Mining, Inc. ("Coeur" or the "Company") (NYSE: CDE) today announced that its subsidiary, Coeur Mexicana, S.A. de C.V., has signed a purchase agreement with a subsidiary of Fresnillo plc ("Fresnillo") to acquire mining …

Despite Indigenous Resistance, Mexico Authorizes …

Illegal Concessions "In the case of Los Chimalapas as well as the Chontal region, there was a conspicuous lack of prior disclosure and consultation of Indigenous peoples as outlined in ILO Convention 169, under the argument …

Making Concessions: Extractive Enclaves, Entangled Capitalism …

This allows us to trace both the regulative framing of mining concessions within their larger macro-political configuration (Section 3) and the micro-politics of negotiating this regulatory space within and outside of these concession sites (Sections 4 Indiscrete concessionary spaces and regulative pluralism, 5 Frontier frictions: bringing the ...

Mining concessions (select countries)

Displays boundaries of areas allocated by governments to companies for extraction of minerals

Coeur Mining to acquire mining concessions in Mexico

Coeur Mining to acquire mining concessions in Mexico. Coeur will pay about $25m in cash and future royalty on specific ounces found on the acquired concessions. ... our land holdings outside the gold stream-encumbered areas will increase by nearly 20% and the overall Palmarejo complex will consist of a single nearly contiguous district spanning ...

Mining 2024

Over 90% of the firm's clients are headquartered outside of Argentina. Beretta Godoy has been highly ranked and recommended as one of the leading law firms in energy and infrastructure in Argentina. ... the main strengths of Argentina's mining environment are the perpetual nature of mining concessions, and the private ownership over ...

simple analysis & visualization of mining concessions and

Calculate overlaps. General procedure: python compute_candidates.py. Index protected area bounding boxes in a q-tree for fast lookups; Get protected area bounding box intersections against mining concession bounding boxes

Mining concessions

All mining concessions. This dataset contains data for mining concessions in Cambodia's from 1995 to 2014. The data was collected from many sources by ODC's mappers such as government, news, company …

Best Management Practices for Orangutan …

concessions and offsets outside their concessions, and par ticipation in conser vation effor ts in the greater landscape in collaboration with other local, regional and national actors.

Despite Indigenous Resistance, Mexico …

Of the 422 mining concessions in Oaxaca registered with the Ministry of Economy, 297 have "valid" status in 2022. ... businesses "because it protects the mining companies from …

Dentons Global Mining Guide: Colombia

Mining Concessions. Pursuant to the Mining Code, the rights to explore a mine are acquired by means of a 30-year concession agreement, which is divided into three phases: exploration, construction and mining. ... Areas does not hinder the application and granting of mining concessions on a first come first serve basis over areas outside of such ...

The conflict between Rights of Nature and mining in …

7813 mining concessions of 22,812km 2 overlay 9.2% of Ecuadorian mainland, 2323 concessions (29.7%) overlap 16,081km 2 of protected forest (4781 km 2, 20%), Indigenous territory (6473 km 2, 8%) and native vegetation outside protected areas and Indigenous territories (13,390 km 2, 9%). With 80% of their protected forests at risk from large-scale ...

DRC Sets Artisanal Mining Scheme

Most artisanal miners work outside the designated zones, in pits and tunnels dug with rudimentary tools, on concessions owned by mining multinationals. Without a resolution of the legal issues, legitimate buyers will struggle to purchase ore from Musompo. Other complications abound. For example, the role of DRC's Entreprise Generale du Cobalt ...

Mining concessions in Cambodia (1995-2022)

This dataset contains data for mining concessions in Cambodia from 1995 to 2022. The data was collected from various sources such as government documents, news, company profiles, NGO reports and other publications in pdf and shapefile formats. Geographic data is encoded in the WGS 84, Zone 48 North coordinate reference system.

Oman to offer new mining concessions in Q1 2023

Oman is in the preparation process to offer a new batch of mining concession areas in the first quarter of 2023, the Oman Energy and Minerals Ministry said in a tweet on Thursday. This process ...

Coeur Announces Agreement to Acquire …

Coeur Announces Agreement to Acquire Concessions Near the Palmarejo Mine from Fresnillo ... our land holdings outside the gold stream-encumbered areas will increase by nearly 20% and the overall Palmarejo …

Panama completes process of mining concession cancellations

Panama said on Thursday that it has completed the process of cancelling and annulling all metal mining concessions. In November 2023, the Central American nation enacted Law 407, ...

Mining Concessions

Mining Concessions. Overview. Overview Data Image Management Visualization Preview Preview Tasks Snapshots Layers Usage Settings. This layer is editable and shared with the …

Coeur fills 'strategic gap' at Palmarejo complex …

The first set of concessions cover the southeast extensions of the Independencia and Nacion deposits, where mining currently takes place. The second set of concessions, located to the northeast ...

Mining Threatens 20% of Indigenous Lands in the Amazon

The unintended consequences of national regulations: Large …

Large-scale mining imposed worse conditions and displaced ASM groups. In response, ASM groups worked with financiers, started encroaching on the concessions of large-scale mining firms to compete for high-grade nickel. In other cases, ASM miners worked for worse conditions or conducted quasi-legal operations outside large-scale mining concessions.

Mapping of artisanal mining sites in western …

Shrinking the size of the reserve, the map places various mining concessions outside of its boundaries, thus legitimizing their continued operation. In conclusion, to restore peace and stability in western Mambasa, artisanal …

Understanding The Recent Changes In Chile's Mining Laws

The third scenario, mainly relevant to small-scale mining, includes exploitation concessions not required to enter the SEIA but are requesting specific permits under Title XV of the Mining Safety Regulation (e.g., a permit to start the exploitation of a mine with an extraction of less than 5,000 tons per month). However, the benefit of reduced ...

Mexico not able to cancel Ganfeng Lithium concessions, …

The president of Mexico's mining chamber Jaime Gutierrez does not believe it is possible for the government to cancel concessions for China's Ganfeng Lithium under the law, he said during a press ...

Mapping of artisanal mining sites in western …

SAEMAPE agents have been refused access to at least 50% of mining sites mapped by IPIS in western Mambasa. A recent map of the Okapi Wildlife Reserve published by the Congolese Mining Cadastre (but not approved by …