LA MINERÍA AURÍFER A CENTROAMERICANA
Gold mining in Central America

The case of the Mina La India and Mina La Libertad in Nicaragua

Author(s): Hélène Roux
Subject(s): Regional Geography, Environmental Geography
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: gold mining; güiriseros; social conflicts; Mina La India; Mina La Libertad; Nicaragua
Summary/Abstract: Mining in Central America, although not outstanding on a Latin American and global scale, does have a decisive impact on the national and local reality. The importance that the mining sector has acquired in the region in recent years is measured by its dynamic growth, and with it also very negative consequences come into view, both socio-cultural and environmental, of the projects that are already operating as well as those yet to come. This article analyzes the dilemmas and conflicts around the industrial gold mining in Nicaragua, from a historical perspective and based on two different case studies, Mina La India and Mina La Libertad where the population has practiced artisanal mining for decades.

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