Ecuador Halts Chinese Mining in Napo Over Environmental Failures

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 […]

LUNDIN GOLD SHARE CAPITAL AND VOTING RIGHTS UPDATE

Lundin Gold (TSX: LUG) (Nasdaq Stockholm: LUG) owns the Fruta del Norte gold mine in SE Ecuador, among the highest-grade operating gold mines in the world.

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.