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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.

Sep 27, 2007· Ascendant Copper Risks Losing Mining Project in Ecuador September 27, 2007 Cyril Mychalejko Ecuador 0 The Ecuadorian government ordered Canada's Ascendant Copper to suspend all activities at its controversial Junin project on Tuesday for violating the country's mining laws.

Mar 03, 2009· Canadian Mining Firm Financed Violence in Ecuador: Lawsuit ... Broad-based opposition to large scale copper mining arose when a Japanese company .

ENAMI (Empresa Nacional Minera del Ecuador) is an Ecuadorian state-owned mining company based in Quito. It was created in 2010 by a decree signed by the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa. ENAMI operates the Rio Santiago and the Pacto gold mines; and has a partnership with the Chilean company Codelco to develop several copper deposits.

In a few weeks, Mariana Walter, Sara Latorre (of ICTA UAB), Carlos Larrea and others from UASB (Quito), will publish a book with a participatory evaluation of scenarios for Intag – comparing large scale copper mining for 20 years or so, against agriculture, increased tourism in this beautiful place, and small scale hydroelectricity.

Ecuador created it's own national mining company ENAMI (Empresa National Minera) in 2009. On July 26th 2012 the Chilean and Ecuadorean governments signed an agreement to (re)activate the Junin copper project in Intag. Chilean copper corporation CODELCO and ENAMI are set to begin explorations during the second quarter of 2013.

Jan 16, 2006· Voluntary Corporate Standards Fail Again: Environmental Organizations Withdraw Complaint Against Ascendant Copper. Control the Corporations. Copper Mesa/Ascendant Copper Ecuador. ... they filed less than a year ago with Canada's Department of International Trade against a Vancouver-registered mining company, Ascendant Copper Corporation (ACX ...

Ascendant Copper Corporation is a Canadian company engaged in the exploration and development of primary base metal properties in Ecuador. The Company acquired a interest in three projects in Ecuador, namely the Junin copper-molybdenum-silver-gold porphyry property, the Chaucha porphyry copper-molybdenum property, and the Telimbela copper ...

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 .

Intag has gold and copper deposits. In 2002, the ministry of energy and mining offered mining concessions in Intag publicly. Canadian mining corporation Ascendant Copper received those in 2004. There was resistance against by Radio Intag., which has existed since 2007. he intention of mining is opposed by locals.

Jun 19, 2006· What's Yours Is Mine Ascendant Copper Corporation Meets Resistance in Ecuador. ... Canadian mining company Ascendant Copper Corporation has big plans for its two large mining operations in Ecuador. "We are confident that Ecuador will grow to be one of the world's great copper districts," said Gary E. Davis, President and CEO of Ascendant.

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The communities living in Intag Valley in northern Ecuador have been opposing attempts to introduce an open-pit copper mine for 20 years.As early as 1995, the region's 17,000 inhabitants held firm against the Japanese mining company BishiMetals and, in 2008, managed to expel the Canadian corporation Ascendant Copper.

Ecuador's government announced on Friday that it was revoking Ascendant Copper's mining concessions for the controversial Junin Project. "As an Intag resident, I am ecstatic to be rid of a source of conflict that was tearing our communities apart," said Carlos Zorrilla, executive director of Defensa y Conservación Ecológica de Intag.

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Bishimetals gave up the idea of a mine two years later, after a series of protests that culminated with a group of community members burning down the camp of the exploratory mining team. Turmoil reignited in 2004 when a Canadian company known as Ascendant Copper (now Copper Mesa) purchased mineral rights to the land.

Sep 28, 2007· 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.

Since then, his administration has supported investment in the country's mining industry. Last year, Ecuador signed a contract with Chinese company Ecuacorriente for the investment of $1.4 ...

located in northern Ecuador, a copper-molybdenum, gold and silver porphyry property with an inferred mineral resource of 982 million tonnes grading 0.89% copper, 0.04% molybdenum and 1.9 grams per ton of silver, at a 0.4% copper cut-off grade(1). The Company also is advancing the Chaucha property located in southern Ecuador, a copper-

Ascendant's principal business is the exploration for copper in Ecuador. The Company has two primary properties, the Junin and Chaucha properties, as well as an extensive exploration data base developed for Ecuador by Rio Tinto Mining and Exploration Limited and the recently acquired Telimbela copper/molybdenum grass roots exploration

Jan 12, 2015· Ecuador's 20-year-old mining conflict . News. By Caroline Pothier Grégory Salomonovitch . ... in 2008, managed to expel the Canadian corporation Ascendant Copper. But since 2012 they have been faced with a new adversary. Following the agreement concluded by the state-owned mining company ENAMI-EP and CODELCO, the Chilean copper giant, it is ...

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.

IT'S ALL OVER FOR COPPER MESA MINING CORPORATION IN INTAG (formerly Ascendant Copper Corporation) By Carlos Zorrilla. 13th November 2008 On Wednesday, November 12th, Ecuador's Ministry of Mines and Petroleum officially extinguished Copper Mesa Corporation's Golden 1 mining concession in Intag, Ecuador.
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