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Dora Alicia Recinos Sorto
Dora Alicia Recinos Sorto ( – 26 December 2009) was a Salvadoran anti-mining activist who was murdered while protesting the opening of a mine by the Pacific Rim Mining Corporation. Career Sorto was an activist opposed to mining and a member of the Cabañas Environment Committee. She campaigned against the opening of El Dorado (El Salvador), El Dorado gold mine in the Cabañas Department of El Salvador by Pacific Rim Mining Corporation, a subsidiary of the Canadian company OceanaGold. Death On 26 December 2009, Sorto was murdered. She was 32 years old and eight months pregnant the time of her death. Her two-year-old son was hit in the foot with a bullet during the murder. Sorto was one of four anti-mining activists who were murdered while protesting the opening of the mine. Aftermath In 2010, the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador reported on the arrest of eight suspects accused or the murder of Sorto and other murdered anti-mining activists. Whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Rim Mining Corporation
The Pacific Rim Mining Corporation is a multinational mining company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. Its principal corporate offices are located in Reno, Nevada and has operations throughout the Americas. It merged with Dayton Mining Corporation in 2002. In 2013, Pacific Rim became a wholly owned subsidiary of OceanaGold. Projects As the company's projects were still in development, Pacific Rim had no income in 2009. At the end of 2009, the company's total assets were valued at $8.2 million. El Dorado mine in El Salvador The proposed El Dorado mine project is Pacific Rim's largest project. The company gained the mine property, of 144 square kilometres, from its merger with Dayton Mining Corporation in 2002, and claims to have invested approximately $77 million to discover and prepare to begin mining gold deposits in Cabañas department. The company estimates that it can extract 1.4 million gold-equivalent troy ounces. Controversy According to US think tank Public Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |