Vetas and California Miners march Monday to Bucaramanga Article from Vanguardia.com.....rough machine translation below. From the sounds of it, pressure is heating up in our favour so hopefully the issue will be resolved soon. While we're waiting, I thought I would throw something out there for discussion for those of you that have been following this story since the Greystar days...
Prior to all of the issues coming up and the project getting completely side tracked, the the original plan was to construct an open pit to exploit as much of the deposit as possible. The plan then changed to the more environmentally friendly underground operation which has significantly reduced the amount of the deposit that would be accessable in an effort to gain more traction and advance the project which ultimately hasn't really mattered all that much given the Paramo issue.
Is there any possibility that if and when Paramo is delineated, the plans could possible change and revert back to the original open pit plan which would allow us to exploit a much larger portion of the total resource? I don't believe I've seen or heard any discussion on the topic since the change from Greystar to EOM and the plans changed, which was years ago.... translation of the Vanguardia article is as follows:
About 100 miners streaks and California municipalities, march on Monday to Bucaramanga, in order to compel the Government to delimit the Santurbán Paramo so that mining companies can reactivate their activities.
A group of miners belonging to unions Sintramisal and Sintraminería, will leave around 8 am Monday from The Corcova to the government of Santander in Bucaramanga, to require the national government to the delimitation of the Paramo de Santurbán stay inside the Regional Natural Park Santurbán.
This was revealed to Vanguardia.com miners representative Suratá, Edwin Esteban Pulido, who said that "the most important request is that the definition of Paramo de Santurbán stay inside the Regional Natural Park Santurbán or at least that is the same" .
Significantly next Tuesday, delegates mining and agricultural sector, along with mayors of the region and the governor of Santander Richard Aguilar, hold a meeting in the Presidency of the Republic, to present their requirements and request to expedite the demarcation of Santurbán Paramo.