Yes, after posting that i scanned a lot of old articles, the water is rarely mentioned in them, seems to appear later ... ditto for references to those 'falsos ejidatarios', even in recent pieces ... one thing that keeps being said for years, especially in La Jornada, is that open-pit mining has long been banned in developed countries ... other statements made, as in la Crónica [which like LJ is connected to UNAM], that the village had only four children left [in 2007], and no school, somebody who knew better wrote in the comments, that no there were actually twenty children about the same as always and they go to school in a nearby place, suggested they check their facts better ... a few pieces present the issue as peaceful mexicanos being oppressed by greedy canadians, though in one that said as much in the header they had to admit there was considerable local support, printed statements from a couple ... there is no end of this stuff, it's been going on all this decade - mx.search.yahoo.com
This is the escudo of the whole estado, features gold and silver bars prominent, a hill with mine entrances, and patron saint San Luis Rey de Francia ... the hill is Cerro de San Pedro ... it's about the hill, which the mine plan is set to replace with a hole
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Over kitco news stream lately there have been pieces on gold exploration in the highlands - what happens when some outfit starts pulling nice long intersections of 3g out of Ben Nevis? ... have we by any chance neglected to stake Mt Rushmore? ... they used to say you can't have a mine without a lawsuit first, it simply isn't done, well maybe you can't have one nowadays without reams of shrill greenie hatchet pieces on the net ... another hour of reading tonight, i'm left with two impressions, 1. the company is not handling it well, they have very little info out there, i wonder how deep you have to dig into prospectii to find reference, and their Minera San Xavier site is too fantastically stupid, the 'music' sucks and it's way too loud, while the flowery rhetoric just points up that they don't have much for actual facts posted, and 2. that i have no idea what's going to happen here, but the saving grace is, much more of this and i won't give a damn
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