Ascendant Copper Told To Leave Intag, Ecuador—Finally! On September 25th Galo Chiriboga, the Minister of Mines and Petroleum, ordered Ascendant Copper Corporation of Canada to suspend all activities within their three concessions in the Intag region due to violations of the mining law.
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Quito, Ecuador Junin Mining Project (Ascendant Copper Corporation): Concern over Human Rights Situation Mr. President, The undersigned international organizations are very concerned with the human rights situation in the Intag area of Imbabura province, in relation to the presence of the Canadian mining company, Ascendant Copper Corporation.
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Ascendant Copper Corporation Meets Resistance in Ecuador Cyril Mychalejko May 22, 2006 Cyril Mychalejko In spite of criticism and resistance from local residents, Canadian mining company Ascendant Copper Corporation has big plans for its two large mining operations in Ecuador.
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WHEN ARBITRATORS REWARD MINING CORPORATIONS' HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES COPPER MESA VS ECUADOR An ill-conceived mining project in one of the most biodiverse areas in the world. A Canadian investor that engaged in intimidation and violence towards the local indigenous population. A local community that vehemently opposed mining to
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At a processing rate of 100,000 tons per day, the copper would take 41 years to dig up. The only other comparable mine, in the south of Ecuador, proposes a daily processing rate of 60,000 tons of copper ore per day. All those tons would yield a daily total of around 300 tons of pure copper, all of it refined in China. But wait, we aren't done ...
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Intag is a remote, partly mountainous area in Cotacachi Canton and Otavalo Canton Imbabura Province, Ecuador, named for the Intag river.It includes Intag Cloud Forest Reserve, which has primary cloud forest at 1800–2800 m and a high biodiversity. Cotacachi Cayapas …
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"For those concessions that have violated legal and constitutional regulations…we will apply the law and that will be our mining industry policy." Ascendant wants to build an open pit copper mine in the Tropical Andes of Ecuador, which according to Conservation International is one of the most ecologically diverse areas in the world.
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ASCENDANT COPPER PROVIDES UPDATE ON JUNIN PROJECT Vancouver, BC - January 31, 2008 – Ascendant Copper Corporation ("Ascendant") or (the "Company") (TSX: ACX) today responded to notices received from the Regional Director of Mines of Pichincha that purport to nullify two concessions, Golden 1 and Golden 2, that form
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Ascendant Copper Corporation Meets Resistance in Ecuador Written by Cyril Mychalejko Upside Down World. 15th May 2006 . In spite of criticism and resistance from local residents, Canadian mining company Ascendant Copper Corporation has big plans for its two large mining operations in Ecuador.
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Mining War in Ecuador by Al Gedicks Z magazine, March 2005 Ecuador has recently been the setting for intense resource conflict. In May 2003 attorneys representing more than 30,000 Ecuadorian Indians filed a billion-dollar lawsuit against ChevronTexaco Corporation.
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Ecuador Mining News, investment TSX, Ascendant Copper, …. Tuning Tables: Chevron won't kowtow by environmentalist activists' tactics. International companies rarely fight back when environmentalists accused them as polluting … » Free online chat! Ecuador: Government Shuts Down Ascendant Copper's Junín … (Ottawa/Intag) Canadian junior mining company Ascendant Copper Corporation ...
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MiningWatch Canada: Resistance to Ascendant Copper's Junin Project continues in Ecuador OTTAWA, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – June 14, 2007) – Employees of Ascendant Copper Corporation continue to face limitations when accessing the concession at their Junin project due to local opposition to the project, an issue that was downplayed in Ascendant Copper's current prospectus.
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The Ecumenical Human Rights Commission (CEDHU) denounces violent actions by people linked to Canadian mining company Ascendant Copper for their attempts to invade various communities in the country's Intag region, while wearing camouflaged uniforms, carrying machine guns and …
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Ascendant Gold S.A. In 2004 Ascendant Gold S.A. optioned the Curiplaya property, but subsequently completed very little work at Curiplaya beyond re-interpretation of existing data collected by Ecuanor and the collection of 17 surface grab samples from the Bramaderos, Melonal and Porotillo zones. Ecuador …
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Ascendant Copper to acquire St Genevieve Posted by Matrix on 17th January 2008 Ascendant Copper Corporation and St. Genevieve Resources (SGV) have entered into a binding arrangement agreement to complete the previously announced acquisition by Ascendant of all of the common shares of SGV in exchange for up to 30 million common shares of Ascendant.
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On May 3rd, on the other hand, the Minister sent James Stonehouse, Ascendant's Vice President, a stinging letter accompanied by photographs of the April 20th protests (image above) In it, the Minister accuses the company of using the needs of ex employees of Ascendant Copper to involve them in political activism.
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Worth its Weight in Copper. ... by Ashley Dalton: On May 13, 1997, the smell of smoke infused the fresh mountain air of Junín, Ecuador as a single, empty wooden shack burned to the ground. If the burning timber didn ... their livelihood, and their forest—are safe from the environmental disaster that would ultimately ensue from copper mining.
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First of all, I think this describes the some of the antics of Ascendant Copper in the Intag region. The people in charge of Intag relations in the Ascendant Mining company are much better of financially than the Inteños, and both groups have very different interests. This immediately puts them at odds.
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12-5-2020· Ecuador Pulls Mining Concession from Canada's Ascendant Copper Company's operating areas Golden 1 and Golden 2 encompassed nearly 5,000 hectares (12,500 acres),
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