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El Salvador becomes first country to ban all metal mining

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 30, 2017 | 3:02 am Base Metals Precious Metals Latin America Copper Gold Silver Zinc 

Lawmakers in El Salvador, Central America’s smallest nation, have passed a law that bans all mining for gold and other metals, making the country the world’s first to impose such a broad prohibition on the extraction of minerals, environmentalists and human...

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