Found this article (had to translate from Spanish) The Ministry of Mines of Bolivia, will assume this week the legal defense of the state at the oral hearing in this case following the request for arbitration filed in 2013 by the Canadian company South American Silver.
Monday , 11 July 2016.- The Attorney General of the State of Bolivia, at the head of his highest authority, Hector Arce Zaconeta and the Ministry of Mining of the Andean country, represented by the Minister Cesar Navarro, assume this week the legal defense State at the oral hearing in the case Mallku Khota, following the request for arbitration filed on April 30, 2013 by the Canadian company South American Silver Limited (SAS). This request would be submitted after having determined, in 2012, the reversion to the original domain of the state of the 10 mining concessions that held the mining company Mallku Khota, located in the Alonso provinces Ibanez and Charcas Potosi department, the paper's website times. by this Decree the administration was also granted and mining development in areas revert to the State through the mining Corporation of Bolivia (Comibol), in coordination with the Geological Survey and Technical mining (Sergeotecmin). the mining company Mallku Khota developed a mining exploration project for about two years ( from 2010 to mid-2012), in northern Potos. However, the exploratory project never went into production and had only preliminary reports, when the company was involved in a number of serious allegations of breach of commitments and handling indigenous communities that ended in clashes between indigenous peoples originating peasants.