"In April, the environment ministry ruled that no new gold mines would be allowed in an area being developed by Crystallex KRY.TO and Gold Reserve GRZ.TO. Days after that ruling, a group of workers stopped operations at Hecla's Isidora gold mine, demanding it be nationalized."

Wasn't this "group of workers" determined to be a tool being used with the support of government entities to slow, break and confuse the whole situation in mining? Also determined to be a small group and not representing the majority of miners there?