ANevada-based mining firm is suing Guatemala for more than $400 million, the first suit of its kind for the impoverished Central American country. The company complains that the Guatemalan government ...

GUATEMALA, Guatemala City, Oct. 28, 2022 /CNW/ - Gremial de Recursos Naturales, Minas y Canteras (GRENAT), the national mining association in Guatemala, today announced its adoption of Towards ...

Guatemala City, Mar 14 (EFE).Guatemala City, Mar 14 (EFE). — Maria Rosario was pregnant with the little girl she now holds in her arms when antiriot cops broke up a protest in May 2014, with which a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Cerro Blanco mining site is located in Guatemala's department of Jutiapa, which borders El Salvador and the Pacific ocean.

In 2000, engineers from Radius Gold, a Vancouver-based mining company, discovered a belt of gold deep inside the Tambor mountains in southern Guatemala. The Guatemalan government promptly issued the ...

The Guatemalan government is fuelling the fires of conflict by failing to consult local communities before awarding mining licences to companies, effectively raising the risk of bloodshed and ...

GUATEMALA CITY, July 6 (Reuters) - Guatemala's Supreme Court on Thursday confirmed a preliminary decision to suspend two mining licenses belonging to the local unit of Canadian miner Tahoe Resources ...

While the present-day conflict revolving around the Escobal mine is socially situated in the antagonistic relations between the Xinka community and the mining companies, it is also economically ...

In early July Guatemala’s President Otto Perez Molina announced he is requesting the congress approve a two-year moratorium on hard rock mining in the country, in an effort to reform mining laws and ...

Canada’s Bluestone Resources (TSX-V: BSR) said the results of a referendum held during the weekend that would ban mining in the Asuncion Mita municipality of Guatemala, where it is looking to develop ...