CVG Minerven obviously won't be pleased with the "done deal"...
"Granting Isidora mine should be managed by Minerva"
Friday, June 20, 2008
The director of labor CVG Minerva, Jesus War, rejects the "bargaining" with the Isidora mine, now operated by Hecla Venezuela, but that most likely could happen at the hands of transnational Russian PMG.
War insisted that the mine must be returned to Minerva, taking into account that the state mining is the only and first state enterprise in the area and also is the only one that really comes to play a social work in the area.
"I dare say that the social contribution of Minerva is still more than the mayors of these municipalities own and care but also to other companies of CVG, and to review shows payroll of each company in relation to what produces" he said.
The workers' representative to the board of CVG Minerva argues that this company needs to expand its productive capacity, and that the time is propitious to recover the Isidora mine.
"We view with great concern the fight almost to death by multinationals who maintain that Lomita which means the block" B "Minerva where the Isidora mine and the community of Chile, which by the way its inhabitants live calamity of the irrational exploitation of the reservoir, since only leave voids in the streets and even dust in the humanity of its inhabitants which undoubtedly will produce disease and misery. "
War claims that the national government that will allow Minerva which is administered and operates its site, also says that something similar should happen with plants Revemin II and the floor of the Camorra.
"We further believe that this is an issue of sovereignty and dignity of these people who should not be less and negotiate with transnational seeking to monopolize the business of a metal as strategic for the nation as is gold", pointed War.
Bochinche in Hecla
It should be remembered that this conflict has since April 18 when three workers showed him the holder of the Ministry of People's Power for Basic Industries and Mining (Mibam), Rodolfo Sanz, evidence of how the security of Hecla naked to the employees output of each shift and to make matters worse sometimes forced to make the "leap frog in" to verify that no part of the material wore gold was mined there.
It was since then that started a battle between workers and transnational, always being on through the Mibam, which paralysed activities Hecla in the block "B" belonging to CVG Minerva to conduct the review of existing mining contract .
The Mibam had announced the departure of the company Hecla Block "B" belonging to CVG Minerva, however days later drove back the measure, arguing that this American company could continue operating as long as they respect the parameters of the new ministry.