Month: February 2008

Decoin.org

Ascendant leading the march to the chopping block

ASCENDANT COPPER LEADING MINING COMPANIES TO THE CHOPPING BLOCK The government let the official cat out of the bag today by stating that next week the Constitutional Assembly will vote on the mining moratorium and revocation mandate. The Assembly was voted into power last year with the main goal of re-drafting the country’s Constitution, and […]

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Ascendant’s Downfall

Ascendant’s Downfall Carlos Zorrilla The government of Ecuador recently annulled the main concessions to Ascendant Copper Corporation’s Junin project; the company’s most valuable resource. The reasons for Ascendant’s title revocation has nothing to do with unpaid mining patents, the main reason the government revoked many of the 585 other mining concessions in Ecuador. And, it’s […]

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