Llurimagua: Ecuador’s Problematic Mining Project
And what the press is not telling the world Carlos Zorrilla 10 min read Posted on February 2, 2023 Updated August 12 2026 by Carlos Zorrilla. It’s time for an update after CODELCO decided to abandon the Llurimagua mining project, as well as walk away from Ecuador altogether. It will be the third transnational mining company that has tried and […]
Read MoreFor Immediate Release: Codelco completely abandons Ecuador, Raising Doubts Over Country’s Mining Future
Intag, Imbabura, Ecuador — August 2026 — Codelco, the Chilean state-owned mining giant and the world’s largest copper producer, has sold its entire Ecuadorian subsidiary and withdrawn completely from the country, a move analysts say signals a serious blow to Ecuador’s standing as a mining jurisdiction. A Troubled Decade in Intag Codelco entered Ecuador in […]
Read MoreLLURIMAGUA, EL PROYECTO MINERO QUE DEFINIRÁ LO QUE ES UN DESASTRE AMBIENTAL EN ECUADOR Y EL MUNDO
Basado en datos reales del único estudio de impacto ambiental no financiado por empresas mineras, el cual basó los impactos en un yacimiento de 9% del tamaño que hoy el gobierno dice que contiene Llurimagua, más información recopilada por biólogos en la concesión minera, estos sería algunos de los impactos ambientales, culturales y sociales si […]
Read MoreBiodiversity in Perspective: The Unappreciated Value of Cloud Forests
How biodiverse are cloud forests like Intag compared to one of the most biodiverse protected areas in the world? Carlos Zorrilla A significant portion of the efforts and funding allocated to conserving the planet’s biodiversity is, rightly, focused on protecting the Amazon’s biodiversity. And not only because of its plants and animals, but also because […]
Read MoreLlurimagua: La concesión problemática del Ecuador y las 25 razones por qué no se debe minar en Intag.
Cinco transnacionales no han podido minar la resistencia de las comunidades y organizaciones de la zona de Intag desde los 1990. La sexta transnacional que fracasará podría ser una de las cuatro identificada por el gobierno que dice están interesadas en el proyecto: BHP (que en en 2022-2023 no pudieron iniciar actividades), Teck, South32, y […]
Read MoreBRIEF HISTORY OF RESISTANCE TO MINING IN INTAG, ECUADOR (Updated February 2026)
Carlos Zorrilla I. Before continuing, a brief, and partial summary of the most relevant developments since I last updated the document. 2025. Besides the fact that in 2024 the Constitutional Court upheld a lower court ruling that the Llurimining mining project would violate the Constitutional Rights of Nature, and called for all mining activities to […]
Read MoreCODELCO TO ABANDON THE LLURIMAGUA MINING PROJECT
Codelco will be the third transnational to be forced to abandon the mining project Carlos Zorrilla, 2025 Santa Rosa Valley, Intag Mina de cobre, Collahuasi, desierto de Atacama Once it became official that Chile’s Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, was abandoning the Llurimagua mining project in Intag (Ecuador) , it didn’t take long for […]
Read More¿Cómo lo llamarías?
Carlos Zorrilla Bosque nuboso típico de la región de Intag, Ecuador. Crédito de la foto: autor. Intenten imaginar; vives en uno de los lugares más hermosos y con mayor biodiversidad del planeta: la región de Intag, en el noroeste del Ecuador. Es una tierra bendecida con ríos limpios, decenas de cascadas, bosques nubosos prístinos y […]
Read MoreFrogs, coalitions, and mining: Transformative insights for planetary health and earth system law from Ecuador’s struggle to enforce Nature’s rights
Author links open overlay panel Carlos Andres Gallegos-Riofrío abc, Mario A. Moncayo-Altamirano d , Andrea Terán-Valdez e, Gustavo Redin-Guerrero f , Carlos Varela d, Stephen Posner g, Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui bch Abstract Pachamama, Mother Earth, faces a mass extinction threat. A radical transformation in human systems is essential, guided by equity and justice at local and global scales. This transformation must reconfigure the World-System’s power structures, impacting the ecosphere (ecological functions, biodiversity, and resource […]
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