Santo Domingo.- The gold mining company PanTerra Gold on Tuesday confirmed it would focus its attention in its Dominican Republic project, after withdrawing from the Azuay gold project, in Ecuador, Australia based site miningweekly.com reports.
“The miner said in a statement to shareholders that the Dominican Republic would be its sole focus over the near term, as the country offered significant exploration potential and political stability,” the industry site reports
Miningweekly said PanTerra would focus on the optimization of gold and silver production at its Las Lagunas project, and would accelerate exploration activity during the second quarter of the year, with some 30 000 ha held in three prospective exploration concessions. “The miner would also work to extend the life of the Las Lagunas project through further exploration, acquisition, joint ventures or toll treatment agreements.”
It revealed that in early January the Las Lagunas plant returned to full production capacity after suffering mechanical issues at the processing plant at the end of last year. “The miner said this week that optimization of the plant performance would continue after a scheduled biannual plant shutdown to undertake general maintenance and minor improvements.”
It adds that plant throughput and rates of recovery for the current quarter were expected to be up on the previous two quarters, “now that the grinding circuit was capable of operating at design levels, the company added.”
Location
According to panterragold.com website, the 100% owned Las Lagunas project involves the reprocessing of high grade gold/silver refractory tailings from the Pueblo Viejo mine near the central city of Cotui, around 105km north of Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic.
Written by: jasfalon, 29 Jan 2013 11:16 AM
From: United States
This island is f+cked!
From: United States, NJ
I agree .If it is not the CANADIAN it is THE AUSTRALIANS either way they are BRITISH colonizers.
Written by: Tomas, 29 Jan 2013 11:58 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Cabrera
Hey, jobs are jobs!
nuff said!
From: United States, NJ
Tomas:
True jobs are jobs including" prostitutions and pimps"tax excempts.In the above cases the politicians pocket the money and people never get to see it in any form of future investments but more non productive botellas.
Written by: anthonyC, 29 Jan 2013 12:41 PM
From: United States
Great news for the D.R. Ecuador's Low Information Voters are killing their country and the D.R. benefits.
This will lead to 1000's of jobs and $$$ for the D.R.
Too bad no Dominican has the Testicular Fortitude to step up and start their own gold mining company.
Written by: Tomas, 29 Jan 2013 1:36 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Cabrera
Whatever, Your country does the same, only they drag branches behind them to hide thier tracks!
Jobs are just that....JOBS!
Which are good in any country!
Written by: Tomas, 29 Jan 2013 1:37 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Cabrera
That was for the uninformed gentleman in Joisey!
Written by: RonEvane 
, 29 Jan 2013 2:23 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Mines destroy the environment by polluting rivers and sickening people downstream.
Most are evicted from their land and never compensated fairly.
Few get incredibly rich at the expense of the poor majority.
Mines=prostituting your mother.
Written by: anthonyC, 29 Jan 2013 2:42 PM
From: United States
Ron,
Every mine is evil? Do you drive a car? Live in a building? There are very few things on this planet that exist without mining.
We are still here and in free market economies the environment is cleaner than it has been in centuries.
And yet people like you still feel the need to b*tch and moan about stupid slogans while never looking at the facts.
Pathetic!
Written by: RonEvane , 29 Jan 2013 2:56 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
"We are still here and in free market economies the environment is cleaner than it has been in centuries."
The environment is cleaner today? What freaking planet do you live on? Don't you read the news?
Have you ever heard about "global warming"? What do you think is causing it? ...Oh, maybe you think it's a lie perpetuated by environmentalists and deluded scientists?
Please tell us why you think our environment is cleaner today than pre-industrial era when no cars and fossil fuels were in constant use? Go ahead, I'm waiting!
Written by: anthonyC, 29 Jan 2013 3:49 PM
From: United States
Pre-industrial?
When the average life expectancy was in the low 30's?
You can have it.
Today our air and water in much cleaner than it was 30, 40 or 50 years ago. Factories are cleaner, Cars are vastly cleaner. Mines are much cleaner.
As for Global warming. it may be happening. Then again it has happened 100's of times over history as had ice ages. In fact i remember 30 years ago when the same type of "Scientist" were claiming we were all going to die from pollution causing a new Ice Age
As anyone knowledgeable in the physical sciences will tell you...The only constant is change.
Tell you what....you go live in a clay hut without any of the modern conveniences created by that evil corporate industry for even 6 months then tell me how well it went.
No modern crops or food, No electricity. No plastics or synthetics. No medicine...not even aspirin and telecommunications. Especially the internet.
You wouldn't be able to survive.
Written by: RonEvane , 29 Jan 2013 5:38 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Double post.
Written by: RonEvane , 29 Jan 2013 5:39 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Mr. C.
The Pacific Ocean is one huge cesspool with a “dead” zone approximating the size of Texas. This is all due to the trash that, up to about 10 years ago, was dumped indiscriminately by passing ships of every kind.
The Atlantic is just as polluted but mostly with oil spilt from tankers and drilling rigs. Remember the BP oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico? Also, remember hurricane Katrina? It devastated New Orleans and its myriad refineries along the Mississippi river!
The great lakes are another example of enormous pollution from the automotive and chemical industries. The Chesapeake Bay in Maryland/ Virginia is still recovering from the enormous dumping, that to this day, the crabbing industry has not recovered and is still reeling from its lowest harvests in history.
Written by: RonEvane , 29 Jan 2013 5:41 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
The sewage and cancer- causing chemicals and other contaminants in the water in cities, are killing millions in the world today. Should I mention the nation of India and China, where life expectancy is lower than the DR? How about the Cholera epidemic in Haiti? Need I say more?
Mr. C, there are ways and there are ways to live safely and comfortably without the need to exploit, pollute and rape our planet. The difference between you and me is that I know how and you don’t. Which is typical of Dumb Dominicans who haven’t a clue as to what really goes on in the world today. Go back to school and stay there ‘till you learn something!
Written by: juanb, 29 Jan 2013 7:00 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Subsurface jobs at substandard wages in subhuman working conditions are not jobs at all.
They are a form of slavery.
I'd love to see some real jobs created. Jobs that pay a living wage and treat the workers as human beings. Unfortunately to create jobs like these you need an educated populace.
Ain't gonna happen with this government.
Written by: anthonyC, 29 Jan 2013 8:06 PM
From: United States
Ron is seriously connecting the Cholera Outbreak in Haiti with Gold Mining in the D.R.?
Wow!
And Juan somehow claims that the jobs are of substandard wages(whatever that idiocy is) and subhuman working conditions without a single piece of evidence to back it up and then compares people working a job of their own free will to slavery.
Another example of the public school system.
Written by: anthonyC, 29 Jan 2013 8:07 PM
From: United States
Ronnie Baby,
I said Free-Market countries so that leaves out India and China and the D.R.
Written by: RoyStone, 29 Jan 2013 8:35 PM
From: Australia
MrThelmoAlmeydaRancier,
declares
"If it is not the CANADIAN it is THE AUSTRALIANS either way they are BRITISH colonizers."
Damn British!
Duminican gold rightfully belongs to the Spanish colonizers.
"Every three months, each Arawak Indian over 14 years of age would be required to pay Columbus with either 25 pounds in cotton or a large hawk's bell of gold dust." Amen.
Written by: RoyStone, 29 Jan 2013 8:41 PM
From: Australia
" .... and political stability,”
Yep!
It's either the PLD or the PRD - both highly corruptible and kleptocratic.
Written by: RoyStone, 29 Jan 2013 8:51 PM
From: Australia
RonEvane,
Mining operations affect less than 1% of the earth's surface and cause far less environmental degradation than agriculture. Both are necessary. Lets keep things in perspective, and strive to do both an an environmentally responsible manner? As for the human cost, far more people will die or become very ill from smoking Dominican tobacco than from mining gold, anywhere. As far as "slavery" is concerned, the mining industry pays much better, and with better conditions than agriculture.
Written by: RoyStone, 29 Jan 2013 8:57 PM
From: Australia
anthonyC,
lements
"Too bad no Dominican has the Testicular Fortitude to step up and start their own gold mining company."
Perhaps a good thing. Imagine what the human and environmental cost would be. Barrack Gold had to clean up the environmental mess left by the Duminincan gold operation before they started.
Written by: RonEvane , 29 Jan 2013 10:32 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
"Mining operations affect less than 1% of the earth's surface and cause far less environmental degradation than agriculture."
Only because there are far less mines than there are farms...And they don't necessarily lead to environmental degradation. A farm well managed and utilizing organic (non fossil) fertilizers can, not only make things grow abundantly and exceptionally well, but it can also condition the soil to retain its integrity and multiply beneficial bacteria vital as natural herbicides. . All that, sans polluting runoff.!
" As for the human cost, far more people will die or become very ill from smoking Dominican tobacco than from mining gold, anywhere."
Please, Roy, how many miners are there in the world, compared to smokers? .. Are you kidding me?
Written by: RoyStone, 29 Jan 2013 11:03 PM
From: Australia
Okay, Ron,
then what proportion of smokers will die from smoking-related illnesses as opposed to miners that will die from mining-related illnesses?
Also mining brings many benefits. Smoking brings none.
I would also say that most mining today is done in an environmentally-responsible manner. Most agriculture is not. The massive loss of rainforests, formation of deserts, salination of huge areas, poisoning of rivers and the destruction of coral reefs still continues today, not from mining but from agriculture.
Written by: RonEvane , 29 Jan 2013 11:45 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
In answer to question #1-- I don't know. Proportionally, it could be 50/50, Just guessing.
"Mining bring many benefits".. Really? To whom?.. The rich and the govt? Sure! And for how long?.. But the poor? How, in what ways?
Agricultural practices can and do bring about degradation, desertification, etc. I'll grant you that. But it doesn't have to be this way. Responsible cultivation can be a very safe and a self-sustaining operation, in the sense that it would not require added fertilizers, or herbicides.( petrochemicals). Therefore, no pollutants to harm our environment.
Agriculture is vital for our survival and we can't do without it.. Mining, on the other hand, is plundering the earth to satisfy the greed of those who care the least for it...Love your mother!
Written by: simondc3, 30 Jan 2013 12:24 PM
From: United States
--Pt1/2--
Ayone interested in some truthiness, beware the avg Dominican is, and has been, pretty much screwed as long as this unsustainable paradigm exists.
And is about to accelerate.
As per the new director of the Mining Mgmt Office of Dom Rep, Alexander Medina (appointed by Danilo Medina; not sure of relation):
1) gold miners will get the "red carpet treatment" on any exploration/exploitation of resources in the DR. Any and all miners that is, even midsize outfits with little or no track record (nor overhead to care about environmental issues) are included.
2) licenses to exploit will be cleared in as little as 2 months (vs the 24 months up to now which gave a time buffer for environmnetal damage studies, no matter how obfuscated they were). That means drinking water laced w/ nerve agents and carcinogens such as cyanides.
3) refractory ore tailings (PanTerra specialty) will be reprocessed after turning the waste ore into much smaller particulates that will allow...
Written by: simondc3, 30 Jan 2013 12:34 PM
From: United States
--Pt2/2--
...additional cyanide leachings to extract any gold left in them.
That was the whole point of the plant shutdown, to install harder grinders that will ground the refractory ore tailings into much smaller particulates.
These particulates will now be easily airborne and dispersed much more easily during rainfalls/storms.
Of course it goes without saying, the easiest, most economical way to extract
gold from ores by far and acknowledged/practiced by all in the industry when given the "red carpet treatment" by any govt is the use of cyanide leaching. Cyanide is a nerve agent to all carbon-based lifeforms.
Move your family out of the DR. Leave it to Ano-C and Roy. Roy will not be seeing much of Australia now that 40C is the norm there. Thank the gods global climate disruption is a liberal mindgame.
Written by: rokete, 30 Jan 2013 3:44 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo
The government spends RD$1.04 Billion pesos, on Haitian illegals health care.
How many Dominicans are in need of that money?
How many Dominican would benefit if that money is spent on education?
How many Dominicans would benefit if that money is spent on their health care??
How many Dominicans would put food on their tables ??
How many bridges would be build in DR??
How many roads paved??
How many schools build??
How many houses build??
How many hospitals ??
How many Kilo Watt of energy produced??
How many dams build??
How many canals for irrigation??
How many docks??
These are the kind of thing some people don't want to understand.
The Dominican Republic is a very poor country.
We cannot have the luxury of spending that kind of money on the health care of illegal Haitians, while our own people are in need of those funds.
EXPEL THOSE ILLEGALS HAITIANS FROM QUISQUEYA !!!!!
VIVA TRUJILLO MOLINA !!!!!
Written by: RoyStone, 30 Jan 2013 9:20 PM
From: Australia
Come on, Ron, think about it -
Our entire technology, including agriculture, is dependent on mining. Do you use a phone, drive a car or use a knife and fork? What are you going to make your activated-sludge waste-digestor out of - bamboo and string?
Written by: RonEvane , 31 Jan 2013 3:20 PM
From: United States, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Okay, Roy, You made your point.!
We couldn't possibly have all the good things if not for mining it out of the earth. I'll give you that!
You're absolutely right and I'm wrong to think otherwise.
Still.........
Somehow it feels wrong to level a mountain to extract ores of any kind. But you're right..... Sniff!
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nuff said!
True jobs are jobs including" prostitutions and pimps"tax excempts.In the above cases the politicians pocket the money and people never get to see it in any form of future investments but more non productive botellas.
Great news for the D.R. Ecuador's Low Information Voters are killing their country and the D.R. benefits.
This will lead to 1000's of jobs and $$$ for the D.R.
Too bad no Dominican has the Testicular Fortitude to step up and start their own gold mining company.
Jobs are just that....JOBS!
Which are good in any country!
Mines destroy the environment by polluting rivers and sickening people downstream.
Most are evicted from their land and never compensated fairly.
Few get incredibly rich at the expense of the poor majority.
Mines=prostituting your mother.
Every mine is evil? Do you drive a car? Live in a building? There are very few things on this planet that exist without mining.
We are still here and in free market economies the environment is cleaner than it has been in centuries.
And yet people like you still feel the need to b*tch and moan about stupid slogans while never looking at the facts.
Pathetic!
"We are still here and in free market economies the environment is cleaner than it has been in centuries."
The environment is cleaner today? What freaking planet do you live on? Don't you read the news?
Have you ever heard about "global warming"? What do you think is causing it? ...Oh, maybe you think it's a lie perpetuated by environmentalists and deluded scientists?
Please tell us why you think our environment is cleaner today than pre-industrial era when no cars and fossil fuels were in constant use? Go ahead, I'm waiting!
Pre-industrial?
When the average life expectancy was in the low 30's?
You can have it.
Today our air and water in much cleaner than it was 30, 40 or 50 years ago. Factories are cleaner, Cars are vastly cleaner. Mines are much cleaner.
As for Global warming. it may be happening. Then again it has happened 100's of times over history as had ice ages. In fact i remember 30 years ago when the same type of "Scientist" were claiming we were all going to die from pollution causing a new Ice Age
As anyone knowledgeable in the physical sciences will tell you...The only constant is change.
Tell you what....you go live in a clay hut without any of the modern conveniences created by that evil corporate industry for even 6 months then tell me how well it went.
No modern crops or food, No electricity. No plastics or synthetics. No medicine...not even aspirin and telecommunications. Especially the internet.
You wouldn't be able to survive.
Double post.
Mr. C.
The Pacific Ocean is one huge cesspool with a “dead” zone approximating the size of Texas. This is all due to the trash that, up to about 10 years ago, was dumped indiscriminately by passing ships of every kind.
The Atlantic is just as polluted but mostly with oil spilt from tankers and drilling rigs. Remember the BP oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico? Also, remember hurricane Katrina? It devastated New Orleans and its myriad refineries along the Mississippi river!
The great lakes are another example of enormous pollution from the automotive and chemical industries. The Chesapeake Bay in Maryland/ Virginia is still recovering from the enormous dumping, that to this day, the crabbing industry has not recovered and is still reeling from its lowest harvests in history.
Mr. C, there are ways and there are ways to live safely and comfortably without the need to exploit, pollute and rape our planet. The difference between you and me is that I know how and you don’t. Which is typical of Dumb Dominicans who haven’t a clue as to what really goes on in the world today. Go back to school and stay there ‘till you learn something!
Subsurface jobs at substandard wages in subhuman working conditions are not jobs at all.
They are a form of slavery.
I'd love to see some real jobs created. Jobs that pay a living wage and treat the workers as human beings. Unfortunately to create jobs like these you need an educated populace.
Ain't gonna happen with this government.
Ron is seriously connecting the Cholera Outbreak in Haiti with Gold Mining in the D.R.?
Wow!
And Juan somehow claims that the jobs are of substandard wages(whatever that idiocy is) and subhuman working conditions without a single piece of evidence to back it up and then compares people working a job of their own free will to slavery.
Another example of the public school system.
Ronnie Baby,
I said Free-Market countries so that leaves out India and China and the D.R.
declares
"If it is not the CANADIAN it is THE AUSTRALIANS either way they are BRITISH colonizers."
Damn British!
Duminican gold rightfully belongs to the Spanish colonizers.
"Every three months, each Arawak Indian over 14 years of age would be required to pay Columbus with either 25 pounds in cotton or a large hawk's bell of gold dust." Amen.
Yep!
It's either the PLD or the PRD - both highly corruptible and kleptocratic.
Mining operations affect less than 1% of the earth's surface and cause far less environmental degradation than agriculture. Both are necessary. Lets keep things in perspective, and strive to do both an an environmentally responsible manner? As for the human cost, far more people will die or become very ill from smoking Dominican tobacco than from mining gold, anywhere. As far as "slavery" is concerned, the mining industry pays much better, and with better conditions than agriculture.
lements
"Too bad no Dominican has the Testicular Fortitude to step up and start their own gold mining company."
Perhaps a good thing. Imagine what the human and environmental cost would be. Barrack Gold had to clean up the environmental mess left by the Duminincan gold operation before they started.
"Mining operations affect less than 1% of the earth's surface and cause far less environmental degradation than agriculture."
Only because there are far less mines than there are farms...And they don't necessarily lead to environmental degradation. A farm well managed and utilizing organic (non fossil) fertilizers can, not only make things grow abundantly and exceptionally well, but it can also condition the soil to retain its integrity and multiply beneficial bacteria vital as natural herbicides. . All that, sans polluting runoff.!
" As for the human cost, far more people will die or become very ill from smoking Dominican tobacco than from mining gold, anywhere."
Please, Roy, how many miners are there in the world, compared to smokers? .. Are you kidding me?
then what proportion of smokers will die from smoking-related illnesses as opposed to miners that will die from mining-related illnesses?
Also mining brings many benefits. Smoking brings none.
I would also say that most mining today is done in an environmentally-responsible manner. Most agriculture is not. The massive loss of rainforests, formation of deserts, salination of huge areas, poisoning of rivers and the destruction of coral reefs still continues today, not from mining but from agriculture.
In answer to question #1-- I don't know. Proportionally, it could be 50/50, Just guessing.
"Mining bring many benefits".. Really? To whom?.. The rich and the govt? Sure! And for how long?.. But the poor? How, in what ways?
Agricultural practices can and do bring about degradation, desertification, etc. I'll grant you that. But it doesn't have to be this way. Responsible cultivation can be a very safe and a self-sustaining operation, in the sense that it would not require added fertilizers, or herbicides.( petrochemicals). Therefore, no pollutants to harm our environment.
Agriculture is vital for our survival and we can't do without it.. Mining, on the other hand, is plundering the earth to satisfy the greed of those who care the least for it...Love your mother!
--Pt1/2--
Ayone interested in some truthiness, beware the avg Dominican is, and has been, pretty much screwed as long as this unsustainable paradigm exists.
And is about to accelerate.
As per the new director of the Mining Mgmt Office of Dom Rep, Alexander Medina (appointed by Danilo Medina; not sure of relation):
1) gold miners will get the "red carpet treatment" on any exploration/exploitation of resources in the DR. Any and all miners that is, even midsize outfits with little or no track record (nor overhead to care about environmental issues) are included.
2) licenses to exploit will be cleared in as little as 2 months (vs the 24 months up to now which gave a time buffer for environmnetal damage studies, no matter how obfuscated they were). That means drinking water laced w/ nerve agents and carcinogens such as cyanides.
3) refractory ore tailings (PanTerra specialty) will be reprocessed after turning the waste ore into much smaller particulates that will allow...
--Pt2/2--
...additional cyanide leachings to extract any gold left in them.
That was the whole point of the plant shutdown, to install harder grinders that will ground the refractory ore tailings into much smaller particulates.
These particulates will now be easily airborne and dispersed much more easily during rainfalls/storms.
Of course it goes without saying, the easiest, most economical way to extract
gold from ores by far and acknowledged/practiced by all in the industry when given the "red carpet treatment" by any govt is the use of cyanide leaching. Cyanide is a nerve agent to all carbon-based lifeforms.
Move your family out of the DR. Leave it to Ano-C and Roy. Roy will not be seeing much of Australia now that 40C is the norm there. Thank the gods global climate disruption is a liberal mindgame.
The government spends RD$1.04 Billion pesos, on Haitian illegals health care.
How many Dominicans are in need of that money?
How many Dominican would benefit if that money is spent on education?
How many Dominicans would benefit if that money is spent on their health care??
How many Dominicans would put food on their tables ??
How many bridges would be build in DR??
How many roads paved??
How many schools build??
How many houses build??
How many hospitals ??
How many Kilo Watt of energy produced??
How many dams build??
How many canals for irrigation??
How many docks??
These are the kind of thing some people don't want to understand.
The Dominican Republic is a very poor country.
We cannot have the luxury of spending that kind of money on the health care of illegal Haitians, while our own people are in need of those funds.
EXPEL THOSE ILLEGALS HAITIANS FROM QUISQUEYA !!!!!
VIVA TRUJILLO MOLINA !!!!!
Our entire technology, including agriculture, is dependent on mining. Do you use a phone, drive a car or use a knife and fork? What are you going to make your activated-sludge waste-digestor out of - bamboo and string?
Okay, Roy, You made your point.!
We couldn't possibly have all the good things if not for mining it out of the earth. I'll give you that!
You're absolutely right and I'm wrong to think otherwise.
Still.........
Somehow it feels wrong to level a mountain to extract ores of any kind. But you're right..... Sniff!