Ascendant sues the Intag Paper
Mary Ellen, editor of the Intag paper called today to inform me that the Intag paper is being sued for libel by our friends at Ascendant Exploration. Libel in this country carries a jail sentence. The paper has printed many stories, all based on facts, on the struggle against mining and on the manouvers undertaken […]
Read MoreIs Ascendant Exploration turning into Ascendant Desperation?
Junin is a world class copper-molybdenum-gold-silver porphyry deposit. Miocene granodioritic rock was intruded by younger mineralized quartz-dioritic and granodioritic porphyries. The economic mineralization is mainly related to primary sulphides. However the existence of secondary enrichment zones increases the potential. Junin is a project in an advance stage (geology, geochemistry, geophysics, drilling, environmentals, prefeasibility). — Taken […]
Read MoreASCENDANT EXPLORATION CONTINUES ACTING TRUE TO FORM
(Intag, Ecuador) As you will be able to see from the report that follows Ascendant Exploration continues to try to impose a mining project very few local villagers want through illegal and aggressive means. This latest rejection is just one more of a long and growing list of examples of people getting fed up with […]
Read MoreDel DIARIO EL NORTE
Ibarra, 1 Septiembre 2004 | Polibio Pérez, Presidente del Consejo de Desarrollo Comunitario de la parroquia de García Moreno. Dijo dirigente comunitario “Ministro del Ambiente está solo en el papel” IBARRA | El Presidente del Consejo de Desarrollo Comunitario de la parroquia de García Moreno, Polibio Pérez, exigió a los ministros del Ambiente Fabián Valdivieso […]
Read MoreMORE GOOD NEWS FROM JUNIN
A delegation from the Junin area was set to travel to Imbabura’s capital, Ibarra, to pressure the provincial government to start working on the road, which the miners had offered to work on in exchange for the communities supporting the mining project (mostly rehabilitation work) Well, yesterday, 18 people showed up from the communities of […]
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