NEW PROTECTED AREA IN JUNIN AREA- Nueva area protegia en área de junin
espaniol abajoOn August 18 the County government of Cotacachi unanimously approved a new Ordinance creating the County’s first municipal protected area encompassing 18, 000 hectares pristine micro watersheds and primary and seconary forests harboring dozens of threatened species, incluing the critically endangered brow-faced spider monkey, jaguars, and Spectacled Beas. The protected area include significant amounts […]
Read MoreToo Late for Copper Mesa / Those Pesky obstacles
Ascendant’s new name; Copper Mesa Mining CorpThe Constitutional Tribunal rules- too late- in favor of Ascendant.Lawsuit against Carlos Zorrilla declared illegal and malicious;Upcoming lawsuit in Canada In the last few years, the shares of Copper Mesa Mining Corp (formerly Ascendant Copper Corporation) have lost approximately 94% of their value, so it was only a matter […]
Read MoreCopper Mesa Mining Corp / Ascendant Copper still distorting facts
One thing is clear: Asscendant’s name change hasn’t affected the distortion of facts. Below is a couple of excerpts from their brand new web page http://www.coppermesacorp.com/properties/south_america/junin/ Property claims… the company claims it owns the JUNIN mining concessions, but does not tell the public or potential investors that the Ecuadorian Government annulled 88% of the country’s […]
Read MoreCopper Mesa Mining Corp: What’s behind a name?
resumen mas adelanteLatest from Intag:Ascendant’s new name; Copper Mesa Mining CorpLawsuit against Carlos Zorrilla declared illegal and malicious;The Constitutional Tribunal rules- too late- in favor of Ascendant.Upcoming lawsuit in Canada So, the name change is official, but a bad mining company with any name is still a bad mining company. If in doubt, please go […]
Read MoreJuly 3 Update: Lawsuit Ruled Malicious, and other news
resumen mas adelanteLatest from Intag:Ascendant’s new name; Copper Mesa Mining CorpLawsuit against Carlos Zorrilla declared illegal and malicious;The Constitutional Tribunal rules- too late- in favor of Ascendant.Upcoming lawsuit in Canada Ascendant’s new nameIn the past couple of years, Ascendant Copper Corporation’s shares have lost approximately 95% of their value, so it was only a matter […]
Read MoreFriday 13th News: Mining in Ecuador
http://www.northernminer.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?id=85699&issue=06132008&ref=rssDaily News Friday, June 13, 2008Ecuador update: many questions, a few answersVancouver – On June 9th, fifty-two days after a mining mandate inEcuador suspended all mining activity while the government drafts newmining legislation, the government began transferring the country’smining concessions to the state.The move, entirely expected as part of the new law, has been one […]
Read MoreAscendant;s Ist Quarter 2008 Report: What the Company is Not Telling…
Espaniol ya mismo………. Ascendant’s 2008 First Quarter Reports and What the Company is Not Telling As expected, Ascendant’s directors have risen to the occasion. The occasion being distorting and withholding information which might reflect badly on the company as reported on its latest quarterly report*. Loss of Concessions.The company does a great job of not […]
Read MoreReflections on the Mining Mandate
en espaniol cuando tenga un chance.. Reflections on Ecuador’s Mining Mandate. It’s easy to see why Canada’s mining companies have spent so much money on publicity to try to lessen the public relations nightmare caused by the Constitutient Assembly’s 95-1 passing of Ecuador’s Mining Mandate, which annulled 88% of the country’s mining concessions- including all […]
Read MoreIT’S ALL OVER FOR LARGE-SCALE MINING IN ECUADOR.
IT’S ALL OVER FOR LARGE-SCALE MINING IN ECUADOR (Español ya mismo….) In the last few months, the mining companies spent millions of dollars in publicity to try and convince Ecuadorians that large-scale mining would get them out of poverty, create thousands of new jobs, and bring millions in rents for the government as well as […]
Read MoreEND TO LARGE SCALE MINING IN ECUADOR? FIN DE LA GRAN MINERIA EN EL ECUADOR?
Mining Mandate: end to large-scale mining in Ecuador / (español ya mismo…) For the past three months, Ecuador’s Constitutional Assembly has been working on a mining mandate meant to fix some of the worst aspects of the discredited mining law, which did little besides legalize the trafficking of mining concessions, leaving the country without any […]
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