Repunta Baja Mining
Posted by Javier on 9/18/10 • Classified Research, Swell
The mining industry in Baja California, which until last year contributed less than 0.1 percent of private investment in the productive sector applied state-thousand dollars 644.6 million in total, has in 2010 a remarkable rise in the share of product Gross Domestic Product (GDP) state.
By Javier Aguirre Cruz
Photo: Enrique Botello
Now the Baja California ferrous metal in the sights of foreign consortia
Supported by foreign capital, from 2007 to date showed a strong increase in its dynamics by recording 15 percent growth, but the state science sector Baja California believes that mining is not of great commercial importance, except in cases of copper and gold and possibly iron-in Parallel 29 and the Sierra Las Tinajas, San Felipe.
Scientists also disapprove of the operation of the San Quintin volcanic field, landscape and unique ecological habitat in Mexico that the federal government, in an attitude "criminal" and "very miserable", awarded to an individual in exchange for removing the 30 percent ash, with little commercial value.
Moreover Baja California gold prospectors, legendary characters and life that shaped the industry over the past two centuries, are endangered and small and medium miners, geologists say academics are not aware of how to explore and exploit mining deposits.
For this reason and lack of educational and financial support, scholars commented on how the Earth's interior, Baja California miners have little or nothing to do with the flood of concessions to large foreign and Mexican companies are getting the federal government after the global rebound in the price of metals such as gold, steel, copper and iron.
Meanwhile, the ejidatarios, to the interests of big foreign mining companies and their Mexican partners to acquire concessions in Baja California, asked the State Congress his speech to the senators and federal deputies to amend the Mining Act.
"Baja California is a potential mining area, which has already been reported by several thousand hectares. What is at issue is of direct benefit in the first place, who have settled in these resources, ie the ejidatarios. We carry one entry per ton extracted and payment of a fee per hectare of land occupied, "said Alfonso Garzón Zatarain, president of Ejido Erendira Commissioner and deputy elected to the Twentieth Legislature.
The suburbs, ready to sell their land to private capital, but in terms of convenience, says the deputy elected by Ensenada, Alfonso Garzón Zatarain.
Revealed that most of the ejidatarios of Baja California are not even aware that there is a mining claims on their premises. You realize when a person gets a concession of the federation.
"So we went in Erendira revealed Garzon, where we now have two large foreign companies with mining concessions to extract iron (iron)."
These are the companies Panamerican Minerals Ventures, S. A. C. V., also a subsidiary of U.S. Cotton & Western Mining, Incorporation, and IRK Group International, a subsidiary of the Indian power generating giant Atlas Power India Private Limited.
With representatives of at least one of these companies the ejido Erendira says negotiations to benefit from the inevitable: the exploitation of iron deposits and possibly gold, at its core ejido and the rest of the area known by the name "San Districts Vicente, Alisitos and Erendira. "
Alfonso Garzon asked, "What do we do? "Put us in a lawsuit over while respecting the law, or try to be partners in the work of exploration and exploitation of the mining project? The latter is what we are doing. "
Justified: "The ejidatarios can not stop for life benefit from a mineral resource to be there. So I used a term with fellow mining claims: 'It was that farmers always tap dance with the ugly! "The ejidatarios must have a stake and we are doing through the signing of some agreements" .
According to Garzón, a version of the Four Winds confirmed with other ejido Erendira, one of the concessions already offered to pay a thousand dollars per hectare busy all the time taken to mine the deposit as well as two dollars per ton ore.
To get an idea of the gains that ejidatarios can achieve if they accept the proposal, it should be noted that a company-Pan American Minerals Ventures, which owns the Guadalupe mine, which exploded in the recent past CEMEX-Mexican consortium has Erendira at least 250 hectares and expects a monthly production of 70 metric tons of iron, same as exported to China through the port of Ensenada.
Erendira mines: An American: Pan American Minerals Ventures (Mina Guadalupe, left), and Hindu: IRK International (below). Both go by iron Baja California (Photos: At the Four Winds).
The group has four other iron mines in the three mining districts. Your Project in Baja California considers low-cost, small-scale and technology, and depends for its success on the nearby port of Ensenada, located 88 kilometers north of a reservoir that is considered the best in the entire east coast of Baja California.
The other company - IRK International Group, "kept almost in secret activities in Erendira, but Internet portal claims to be" one of the largest iron ore producer and a leading global supplier of mineral and pure steel in pieces, concentrates of manganese and copper. "
And in Mexico, "says the company that presides over the Hindu R. Ilangovan Ammal-Kuppusamy, owns, through contracts and grants of rights in the mining sector, a potential reserve of 80 million tonnes of iron ore, 1.2 million tons of manganese ore, and four million tonnes of ore copper at different locations within the country.
In Ensenada mining group has already given financial support to various City Hall and the state government to carry out social and environmental work, sponsored by example the celebration of World Environment Day (June 5).
The evaluation of iron that have the two mining companies is 400 thousand to 500 thousand tons and talk of a potential that can be expanded to one million tons.
Therefore the ejidatarios and study the proposal and hope to add other demands, such as improvements to the ejido, the population center and other support in kind.
They have also made it a condition there is first a completion of an environmental impact study, document where they say what will happen before and after the operation.
"In the case of the ejido Erendira Alfonso Garzon said, it is common land where everyone should take advantage in mining. Something that will allow the landowners to remedy some of the many needs
