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By: Peruvian mine's leach pad collapse contaminates river | Lat/Am Daily

Peruvian mine's leach pad collapse contaminates river | Lat/Am Daily — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:35:56 +0000

[...] an open-pit goldmine in Costa Rica was shut down in 2007 on fears that something similar was about to happen, the chemical causing concern was cyanide. Not [...]

By: Central America mining redux: Costa Rica and Guatemala « I THINK MINING

Central America mining redux: Costa Rica and Guatemala « I THINK MINING — Thu, 13 May 2010 03:26:22 +0000

[...] about mining in Costa Rica, which is essentially just next door. We talked of the failure of the Bellavista Heap Leach Pads and we talked about the news that Costa Rica has once again banned mining. The long-delayed Crucitas [...]

By: I THINK MINING three years and one thousand postings on mining later « I THINK MINING

Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:37:04 +0000

[...] never have communicated with. For example, much of what I wrote about the failure of the Bellavista heap leach pad was sent to me by people living besides the site. Similarly with the story of Southwestern [...]

By: Morgan Hite

Morgan Hite — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:36:18 +0000

In Smithers, BC, at present Blue Pearl Mining, part of Thompson Creek Metals, is attempting to receive approval in the BC Environmental Application process for its Davidson Project (molybdenum. The officers and directors of Thompson Creek/Blue Pearl feature figures familiar from Glencairn: Ian MacDonald, Peter Tredger, Kerry Knoll, etc. If you read the public comments submitted by nearby residents (http://a100.gov.bc.ca/appsdata/epic/html/deploy/epic_project_doc_list_262_r_pub.html) you will see the proposal is NOT locally popular. TCM is actually trying to put the mine just outside a neighbourhood, in the watershed used for water by 50 households. The noise issues, dust issues, and trucking issues are further complicated by the town’s identity as a ski resort and international steelhead/salmon fishing destination. As such, the proposed water treatment plant is drawing a lot of fire. With the recent failure of Ruby Creek and Galore in BC, it’s hoped the BC govt. will examine the workability of this one carefully before approving it. BC had probably better factor in the cost of treating water in perpetuity. Hopefully the locals won’t ultimately be proven to be the Cassandras crying in the wilderness.

By: Bruce Katz

Bruce Katz — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:54:32 +0000

I and a colleague have been in Ontario Superior Court (Glencairn versus CCCCH, Bruce Katz« and René Silva) since january 2004. Glencairn attempted to intimidate us with a SLAPP suit. When we filed a defence statement in Ontario Superior Court, they began to panic because they hadn’t counted on us standing our ground. Their ssuit followed information we had put on our web site detailing criticism of thei heap-leaching pad at the Bellavista mine. In its original file claimed against us, Glencairn denied that it uses a cyanide-based solution to leach the gold. The evidence would appear to indicate otherwise. Glencairn also claimed losses of 17 million dollars because of our ‘defamatory’ article, but in its 2004 financial report, Glencairn shows 8 mllion dollars in losses linked to operating costs, no mention made of our web site.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:11:23 +0000

Jack thanks for the update from Bellavista. I must have overlooked seeing your name on the Board of Directors, Management, of Central Sun Mining or any of its subsidiaries directories. So it appears that your judiciary responsibility is less than your fiduciary agreement with your readers. All the parties involved are in civilized binding agreements.
The article written was as bias as the majority of your recent articles about Central Sun Mining. If I may and use my wife Anna as an example. Her reporting background includes witness to an execution, – Earl Behringer, for the Mansfield New Mirror, along with the “Texas Cadet killers,” and Amber Hagerman, God bless the little girl who became our national Amber alert for missing children. She lived close to my paper route when I was a child. A bit of brag but the Mrs. has shaken the hand of George W Bush himself.
To be truthful, I love her dearly, but some of her publish news were in fact biased. All local reporters write in this style, as you know the facts are dull.
I keep in touch with a lot of people about the Bellavista mine. I hear all kinds of projections. If this is not going to be a gold mine then I trust Peter Tagliamonte reclamations of the property and “doing the right thing” in Costa Rica. Maybe nice golf course, resort and those jobs may be in the future. This is not only is possible its worlds apart from the environmental disaster that you have predicted.
Robert