This is just something that made me smile when I was searching for news last night.
Its not new but I can't remember seeing it posted. Its a long read but Hey! we've been waiting for a long time and this reads like PLEXMAR might be something they are now wanting in Piura.
Maybe there are more praying than we know!
Smee (excuse the computer translation)
EXPECTING A PLEXMAR
Everyone seems to agree with the mining park where the park should be upgraded existing agro exporter
FACTORTIERRA FACTORTIERRA
YOURS, Ayabaca - The door is open for mining in the Valley Quiroz. Piura Regional Government has stressed the need to create a park where the extractors Mining informal and formal can focus for this activity.
Arguably, the artisanal mining in Costa de Piura is a side effect of the case Tambogrande.
When Manhattan Minerals studied the geology of the batholith in which sits Tambogrande polymetallic deposits, noticed that the vein extends to the north and entered the Ecuador. Basically, the Canadian mining ore argued that law was best to flush the soil mainly gold, copper, silver and zinc, in that proportion.
While Manhattan resigned Tambogrande The news encouraged some investors who had already begun to exploit mineral toad, Ayabaca.
For when it closed the first phase of the case Tambogrande in 2005 were reports of some isolated settlements in the border districts of Tambogrande and toad, which was removing stones from which gold was obtained.
A year later, an editor of factortierra not only confirmed the news, but documents, photographs and published the information to the surprise of many locals, including Mayor Segundo Moreno, who began his administration.
By then, artisanal mining activities were extended by a corridor of about 50 kms. Among the districts of Suyo and toad in Ayabaca, and Las Lomas in Piura. A complaint by the Board Members Irrigation District San Lorenzo Valley, found tunnels and stone crushers in the district of Paim, next to the irrigation infrastructure of the San Lorenzo Irrigation, and the other side of the Cordillera together at the Reservoir of the same name.
For the West, is the same activity to a lesser extent, in the districts of Lancones, and more recently in Bellavista, both belonging to Sullana.
Although the regional government of Piura has regulated the protection of Reservoir San Lorenzo and the basic infrastructure of irrigation this valley, has prompted parallel formalization of artisanal mining.
The Regional President César Trelles cree that's the best way to avoid the negative consequences of this activity, ie pollution. In a recent visit to Piura, Environment Minister Antonio Brack said to agree on the same arguments.
The dump as Chira
The miners themselves have admitted that the process using mercury. The liquid metal can separate gold from rock that has no economic value.
A new measure of the Fiscal Environment Piura, Olenka Saldaña has found that other seats are using cyanide, as a recently spoken near the city of Las Lomas.
Mercury and cyanide are toxic, but operate differently.
Mercury works over the long term and to be absorbed by any form of life, it weakens your immune system and may even alter their DNA, creating genetic mutations that can be transmitted to the embryo lethal cyanide is more, as just one tablespoon of This diluted in a glass of water to kill a person in 5 minutes.
The effects of mercury have been better documented in the production of Guarango film and video, on the stroke of a container of Minera Yanacocha in Choropampa, Cajamarca.
Nearly 900 people are affected and have virtually no option left to claim, then sign documents Yanacocha release any criminal liability. The documentary asserts that out, some residents received compensation of $ 1500 as payment.
On cyanide, there are no known cases of collective poisoning, but many miners have reported Suyo of medical emergencies by improper handling of this chemical.
Nor is there a study on the potential risk of the tails of artisanal mining in Piura on the flow of water where they are deposited. All are ready for downloading into the rivers Macará, Quiroz, Chipillico, or the Chira, which all lead.
Sullana the most important city of Chira Valley, has no clear policy on this matter, nor strong enough to halt the advance of mining. We know that after informal detected a crusher in south city Sullana, a measure of the Municipal Serenazgo was aborted without explanation. The problem is that the leaks are affecting the neighbors, which are internal to a rehabilitation center for toxic dependents.
The only reference we have is documented and any Choropampa must be alert to the symptoms described in the film: continuous bleeding from the nose, pain in the kidneys, liver dysfunction, spontaneous abortions, birth defects, cancer, among others.
Park mining
According to the newspaper El Tiempo de Piura, President Regional Trelles, reconvened to Corridor Mayors artisanal miners to organize and build a park Miner.
Still do not know if it was to register all the miners, who until last year had a 60% success. The only thing is that there is already a formal mining operation in the north exit of the city of Las Lomas, although the local mayor said Cristian Vencer oppose the activity, and need the help of the neighborhood to show the opposition a majority.
The truth is that all the broker artisanal mining opponents and the drivers are divided equally, even in His locate where the Parque Minero.
El Segundo Mayor Telmo district of Guerrero, has offered a plot of 100 hectares. To build the facility, what is not known where it will locate in Suyo, considering that the whole district is made up of farming communities. The weather has also noted that ownership of the extractors is also unclear, despite this, one of the leaders has said that the facilities offered to the village of La Puerta, in the limit of Las Lomas and Suyo, belonging to the Rural Community San Sebastian.
The whole area is composed mainly of dry forest, agricultural land only appears on the shores of Quiroz and Macará as well as the Chira, but the economy barely moved in the area. Some livestock enterprises with less has become the background to the emergence of mining.
In that respect, no authority has talked about the impact of the dry forest, only the Attorney Olenka Saldana, who has launched a campaign to defend the environment in general.
What is said is not what the fate of the Canadian Mining Plexmar, thinks that operate the Bolsa del Diablo project in the district of His. In November last year, had announced that it would negotiate with the miners how to use them as suppliers, through an outsourced, and transporting the ore to the south.
The only place in southern Peru where minerals are processed is obtained by small-scale miners in Caravelí, Arequipa, where many argue that only pays for the gold, but hardly recover the cost of production.
Since that time, Plexmar has reported no progress on this activity, although it should have ended in mid-January.
The other challenge comes from His own neighborhood, which has seen the miners, Dangerous Liaisons, starring scandals that weekend, and even face shots.
The Mayor of Las Lomas said he had reported the presence of Ecuadorians in the settlements allegedly hidden by artisanal miners. He has raised an issue of national security, notified the relevant authorities, to no avail.
It seems that the name of the Draft Plexmar hair falls to the situation where is all this area.
The alternative
As in the case of any disease is the cure, Tambogrande is also a solution to avoid the creation of the Park miner.
El Segundo Mayor Moreno announced on Monday February 16 to be a boost agro-export park, to take advantage of the potential field as a supplier of food and generating foreign exchange for Peru.
Whatever you have to work the efficiency of productive chains, the idea is viable and successful. In fact, no one would have to start from scratch as in the Parque Minero, but organize all the agro-strip which lies between the city and Cruceta Tambogrande, besides enhancing the Farmer's House.
This entity was created by Francisco Ojeda exalcalde peasantry to use this as a business center and contact with its major markets. The idea is to give vision to this initiative, and we already have a working first agro-export park.
A second park could be implemented in the Sector Cieneguilla, Sullana where now is located the call Limonera. Factortierra know that some entrepreneurs have projects to better organize the space so that more effectively serve the producers and marketers of lemon piurano, which is tentatively being exported to the rest of the continent, especially Chile, where cebiche is appreciated .
Meanwhile, Tambogrande must fight against his front artisanal mining. Following the case of Malinga, complaints have been reported from San Pedro de Weavers, where settlers and miners have had a couple of crashes.
Political will, vision and overall seem to be the largest key.
