Costa Rica - Judgment will decide future gold-mine The Crucitas
05-10-2010 Costa Rica prayedThe future of a polemic mining project of opencast gold in the north area of Costa Rica will be decided in a judgment by environmental damage that initiated 04-10-2010 in the Administrative Contentious Court of San Jose. Until October 8, 2010 the judges will listen to the arguments in favor and against the operation of the mine The Crucitas, in charge of the transnational Canadian Vanessa Ventures across his branch in Costa Rica, You manage Immensely.
The mine located in the rural locality of Cutris de San Carlos, close to the border with Nicaragua, is provided with all the permissions of the Government for his functioning, and from there the signature operator tries to extract 700.000 golden ounces (19,8 tons) in 10 years, valued for approximately 800 million dollars.
Nevertheless, his works remain suspended like precautionary measure until a judgment is expressed on the case.
Last April 16, 2010 the Constitutional Room of the Supreme Court pushed back a series of resources of cover against the mine, on having determined that the technical and environmental studies were in order and were endorsing his operation.
For his part, in spite of the repeated requests of environmentalists and other groups, the Costa Rican president, Laura Chinchilla, discarded in July, 2010 to annul the mining Crucitas authorization, arguing that it would imply to the State the payment of a millionaire indemnification.
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