Intag's Recurrent Nightmare: Adding Up The Costs Of Ecuador's Mineral Wars

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/ecuador-archives-49/5318-intags-recurrent-nightmare-adding-up-the-costs-of-ecuadors-mineral-wars-
Date Written:  2015-05-05
Publisher:  Upside Down World
Year Published:  2015
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX17533

Intag is situated in Northwestern Ecuador. In the 1990s Bishimetal, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi, found evidence of a large copper deposit lying in the bowels of the biodiverse Toisan Range. In 1997 it was forced to abandon the project. In 2012 CODELCO, Ecuador’s state-owned mining company moved to revive the project as part of a government to government agreement. The nightmare returns.

Subject Headings

• Copper Mining
• Ecuador
• Mining