An Assessment of Mine Legacies and How to Prevent Them by Vladimir Pacheco Cueva

Author:Vladimir Pacheco Cueva
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

4.3.2 Uncertainty in Relation to Land Tenure

According to data provided by the National Registry Center (CNR), the land in which the mine is located has an area of approximately 2.1 km2 and is owned by San Sebastián Gold Mines Inc, one of CGC’s subsidiaries. This company also leases land from Minsanse which is partly CGC owned and partly worker owned. During the interview process many informants reported not to have any certainty to ownership of the land in which they were living despite the fact that some of them are part owners of Minsase.21 Many of them argued that this provision only provides a temporary solution to these households because the land on which they have built their homes technically does not belong to them, and they would prefer to have more security by having legal title to the land. This situation is so problematic in El Salvador that it has been covered in the national press. El Diario Latino interviewed Mr. Gustavo Blanco, who has lived on the company’s property since he was a child:This company was founded with 90 workers so there is only one social deed in common, but no one can get a registered title for land […] if the owners return and they find a vein of gold in my lot, I would not have nothing to do here because the company [CGC] is legally the owner (Diario CoLatino 2014).

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