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Mining operations in Haiti
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Haiti has a small mining industry, extracting minerals worth approximately US$13 million annually.
In 2012 it was reported that confidential agreements and negotiations had been entered into by the Haitian government granting licenses for exploration or mining of gold and associated metals such as copper for over 1,000 square miles in the mineralized zone stretching from east to west across northern Haiti.[1] Although commercially viable copper and gold deposits have been found, and permits have been granted for mineral extraction, no mining operations have yet begun as of May 2012.
Bauxite, copper, calcium carbonate, gold, and marble are the most extensively extracted minerals in Haiti. Lime and aggregates and to a lesser extent marble are extracted. Gold was mined by the Spanish in early colonial times. Bauxite was mined for a number of years in recent times at a site on the Southern peninsula.
Estimates for the value of the gold which might be extracted through open-pit mining are as high as $20 billion.
Gold[edit]
Eurasian Minerals and Newmont Mining Corporation are two of the firms given permits to mine in northern Haiti.[1] According to Alex Dupuy, Chair of African American Studies and John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University the ability of Haiti to adequate manage the mining operations or to obtain and use funds obtained from the operations for the benefit of its people is untested and seriously questioned. Lakwèv, where earth dug by hand from home-made tunnels is washed for free gold by local residents, is one of the locations. In the same mineralized zone in the Dominican Republic Barrick Gold and Goldcorp are planning on reopening the Pueblo Viejo mine.[2][3][4]
A former minister of finance for Haiti is now a consultant for Newmont Mining. Newmont Mining's Yanacocha pit mine in Peru, at 251 square kilometers, is the largest in the Western hemisphere and possibly the world.[1] An offer by Newmont Mining to exploit Bolivia's (WP) Lithium deposits was rebuffed by its president Evo Morales (WP).[1]
Further reading[edit]
- Who Will Benefit from Haiti’s Gold Rush? Haitian Government Embraces U.S., Canadian Mining Firms Thursday, May 31, 2012, Wikipedia:Democracy Now!
- Report by Haiti Grassroots Watch, published Wednesday in Wikipedia:The Guardian and also in Wikipedia:Haïti Liberté
Citations[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Who Will Benefit from Haiti’s Gold Rush? Haitian Government Embraces U.S., Canadian Mining Firms Thursday, May 31, 2012, Democracy Now!
- ↑ Martha Mendoza (May 11, 2012). [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iQ2SuH1RWmiDf088vyEsVYFRfRFQ?docId=6dc13bae738e496a8adaf66950741f94 "Gold!
Haiti hopes ore find will spur mining boom"]. Google Hosted News. Associated Press. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iQ2SuH1RWmiDf088vyEsVYFRfRFQ?docId=6dc13bae738e496a8adaf66950741f94. Retrieved May 31, 2012.
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- ↑ Jane Regan (May 30, 2012). "Haiti's rush for gold gives mining firms a free rein over the riches". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2012/may/30/haiti-gold-mining. Retrieved May 31, 2012. </li>
- ↑ May 30, 2012. Gold Rush in Haiti!: Who will get rich?. Haiti Grassroots Watch. URL accessed on May 31, 2012.
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- ↑ Jane Regan (May 30, 2012). "Haiti's rush for gold gives mining firms a free rein over the riches". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2012/may/30/haiti-gold-mining. Retrieved May 31, 2012. </li>
