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Ecuador Halts Chinese Mining in Napo Over Environmental Failures
- Ecuador's Ministry of Energy and Mines suspended four Chinese-owned mining concessions in Napo on May 28, 2025, due to environmental violations.
- The suspension followed 2024 audits revealing untreated wastewater, unsafe extraction, and unrehabilitated sites under Terraearth Resources' operations in the Amazon.
- Illegal mining activities by groups such as Los Lobos have destroyed 7,000 hectares and caused river contamination with toxic metal concentrations hundreds of times above health safety standards.
- Terraearth is required to present a restoration plan by the end of 2025 and is expected to incur compliance expenses ranging from $5 million to $10 million to restart its suspended Tena gold project.
- This suspension challenges Ecuador's balance of economic gains and environmental protection, influencing investor confidence and regulatory enforcement in its $3 billion mining sector.
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Ecuador's Ministry of Energy and Mines reported this Wednesday that, following a control operation in the Amazonian province of Napo, it suspended exploitation and exploration activities in the Talag, Confluencia, Anzu Norte, and El Icho mining concessions, which are part of the Tena mining project, citing noncompliance with environmental regulations by the company Terraearth Resources S.A., incorporated in Ecuador with Chinese capital, accordin…
There is a Chinese company that today is called Terraearth Resources and is dedicated to the extraction of gold. But it did not always have that name. The company has a broad history of changing names, activities and shareholders. The indigenous people of the area also do not want them because they remember that the first mining companies came to settle in rural areas where indigenous communities lived that did not know what they were going to d…
Ecuador Halts Chinese Mining in Napo Over Environmental Failures
Ecuador’s Ministry of Energy and Mines suspends four mining concessions in Napo, citing violations by Chinese-owned Terraearth Resources. The Tena project, targeting gold in the Amazon’s biodiverse province, stops until Terraearth corrects environmental damage. Authorities announced the decision on May 28, 2025, unsettling the mining sector. Audits by the Ministry of Environment prompt the suspension […]
Binational operations on the northern border allowed the disqualification of camps dedicated to illegal mining, on Thursday May 29, 2025. Ecuador’s Army entry disables six illegal mining camps in Carchi was first published in Teleamazonas.
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