2016-1-11 Haiti’s history is littered by exploitation of its minerals. The Spanish did so first, followed by the French, until Haiti emerged as the world’s first independent black state. In the 1970s the United Nations Development Programme confirmed the existence of gold in Haiti
Read More2012-12-26 VCS Mining and its wholly owned subsidiary, Delta Société Minière S.A. announces the awarding of a gold mining exploitation permit issued by the Haitian Government for its Morne Bossa project. This...
Read MoreHaiti's Early Gold Exploitation by Christopher Columbus Posted by hougansydney on Saturday, December 27, 2014 Under: Haitian Natives The Natives didn't know that this shiny materials they use to make eating utensils and ornaments was so precious to the Spaniards; to make them happy them bring them even more gold stuff, The Spaniards were happy to see that the natives didn't seem to have a
Read More2021-5-8 In 1915, the US invaded and occupied Haiti, transferring the gold reserves of the Haitian National Bank to US-owned Citibank. Haiti's constitution was changed to allow for US ownership of land. This fuelled the creation of large, lucrative plantations, in the process driving peasant farmers from their land into urban slum areas — where 90% unemployment remains.
Read More2015-3-12 The World Bank has been involved in developing the Draft Mining Law in Haiti even as some Haitians worry that a massive expansion of Haiti’s mining sector will pave the way for the entry of foreign companies interested in “looting” the country’s significant gold and other deposits. The Haiti Mining Justice Collective, a group of six Haitian civil society organizations, insists that “Mining exploitation has never contributed to the development of Haiti.”
Read More2012-7-15 Remarais issued a gold and copper exploitation permit to SOMINE SA, which is jointly owned by Canadian company Majescor Resources Inc. and Haitian investors. Remarais issued a second gold exploitation permit to VCS Mining LLC, a North Carolina-based mining company with offices in Haiti.
Read More2012-11-29 Under cover of the holidays, Haiti’s Mining Director Ludner Remarais issued a gold exploitation permit to VCS Mining LLC (and its wholly-owned subsidiary Delta Societe Miniere S.A.), a U.S. company based in North Carolina, and gold and copper exploitation
Read More2015-3-5 Hillary Rodham Clinton’s brother, Tony Rodham, sat on the board of a self-described mining company that in 2012 received one of only two “gold exploitation permits” from the Haitian government—the first issued in over 50 years. The tiny North Carolina company, VCS Mining, also included on its board Bill Clinton’s co-chair of the Interim Haiti ...
Read More2015-3-7 At the time VCS Mining's 'gold exploitation permit' was awarded, according to a press release from the company, it was one of only two firms to get one. The Haitian government hadn't issued such a...
Read More2015-3-20 In December 2012, VCS won one of the first two gold-mining permits the Haitian government had issued in more than 50 years.
Read More2012-11-29 Under cover of the holidays, Haiti’s Mining Director Ludner Remarais issued a gold exploitation permit to VCS Mining LLC (and its wholly-owned subsidiary Delta Societe Miniere S.A.), a U.S. company based in North Carolina, and gold and copper exploitation permits to SOMINE S.A. SOMINE is 66.4 percent owned by Canada’s Majescor Resources Inc ...
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Read More2012-12-21 Remarais issued a gold and copper exploitation permit to SOMINE SA, which is jointly owned by Canadian company Majescor Resources Inc. and Haitian investors. Remarais issued a second gold exploitation permit to VCS Mining LLC, a North Carolina-based mining company with offices in Haiti.
Read More2018-3-1 Pueblo Viejo is drawing gold and copper—a belt that stretches across Haiti’s northern departments. Pueblo Viejo is one of the world’s most productive mines and has spurred interest in the potential deposits that may lay under Haitian soil. The exact quantity of Haiti’s mineral resources is not known, but some estimates place
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Read More2013-1-11 In December 2012, under the cover of the holidays, Haiti’s Mining Director Ludner Remarais issued gold exploitation permits to the U.S.’ VCS Mining LLC and Canada’s Somine S.A. These permits, which are for five years and renewable for up to 25 years with a possible renewal for another 10 years, were granted without even so much as a ...
Read More2021-1-23 On March 6, 2015, VCS Mining was forced to respond to allegations it received a sweetheart deal in the form of contracts from the Martelly regime to begin exploitation of Haiti's largest gold fields. The allegations arose after it was discovered that Hillary Clinton's brother, Anthony "Tony" Rodham, was on the Board of Directors of VCS Mining.
Read More2012-12-22 Haiti’s government announced Friday that it has awarded permits for the first time in the country’s history to allow two companies to openly mine for gold and copper, the Associated Press reports. The nation’s mining director, Ludner Remarais, said he hopes the move will bring a badly needed burst of money to the impoverished Caribbean
Read MoreHillary Rodham Clinton’s brothe sat on the board of a mining company that in 2012 received one of only two “gold exploitation permits” from...
Read More2017-4-15 The AP found that some 150 allegations of abuse and exploitation by UN peacekeepers and other personnel were reported in Haiti alone between 2004
Read More2021-3-12 In Haiti’s Gold Rush [Guernica Magazine"> Jacob Kushner writes that ‘mineral explorers have long suspected Haiti could be sitting on a large gold deposits’. But in speaking to a number of Haitians they say the local people in the northern mountains and elsewhere have always known there was gold in the ground and US and Canadian mining ...
Read More2013-1-3 Remarais issued a second gold exploitation permit to VCS Mining LLC, a North Carolina-based mining company with offices in Haiti. “It allows us to finally produce and make money, at least get to that step,” Majescor CEO Dan Hachey said in a phone interview. “It’s also a great step forward for the mining industry in Haiti.”
Read More2012-12-21 Remarais also issued a second gold exploitation permit to VCS, a North Carolina-based mining company with offices in Haiti. "It allows us to finally produce and make money, at least get to that ...
Read More2013-1-11 In December 2012, under the cover of the holidays, Haiti’s Mining Director Ludner Remarais issued gold exploitation permits to the U.S.’ VCS Mining LLC and Canada’s Somine S.A. These permits, which are for five years and renewable for up to 25 years with a possible renewal for another 10 years, were granted without even so much as a ...
Read More2018-3-1 Pueblo Viejo is drawing gold and copper—a belt that stretches across Haiti’s northern departments. Pueblo Viejo is one of the world’s most productive mines and has spurred interest in the potential deposits that may lay under Haitian soil. The exact quantity of Haiti’s mineral resources is not known, but some estimates place
Read MoreHaiti a gold mine for foreign companies pulitzer center haiti s grim history of being open for business liberte gold haiti eyes potential 20 billion boom world news gold haiti eyes potential 20 billion boom world news haiti a gold mine for foreign companies pulitzer center haiti communities file complaint before world bank over social.
Read More2012-5-2 UPDATE #2, December 21, 2012 (Associated Press) and December 28, 2012, VCS Mining: Under cover of the holidays, Haiti’s Mining Director, Ludner Remarais, issued a gold exploitation permit to VCS Mining LLC, and its wholly-owned subsidiary Delta Société Minière S.A., a U.S. company based in North Carolina, and gold and copper exploitation ...
Read More2010-1-15 "Haiti has had slavery, revolution, debt, deforestation, corruption, exploitation and violence," says Alex von Tunzelmann, a historian and writer currently working on a book about the country and ...
Read More2017-4-15 The AP found that some 150 allegations of abuse and exploitation by UN peacekeepers and other personnel were reported in Haiti alone between 2004
Read MorePresident Boyer did find a way to help the Greeks; with the letter, he sent a cargaison of 25 tons of coffee, one of the most important commodities of the time, to Adamantios Korais, to be sold on behalf of the greek revolutionaries for the procurement of supplies; thus making Haiti the first country in the world to recognized Greece as an independent country, and the first one outside Europe ...
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