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Nicaragua: Government grants mining concession to Chinese company on Miskitu and Mayagna indigenous territories
"Government of Nicaragua grants another mining concession to a Chinese company", 17 June 2024
...The Nicaraguan government has granted an open-pit mining concession for a total of 2,091 hectares to a Chinese company in the Nicaraguan municipality of Bilwi or Puerto Cabezas, in the North Caribbean Autonomous Region, the official gazette La Gaceta in Managua reported on Monday.... With this mining concession, the Government of President Daniel Ortega has granted ten mining concessions to Chinese companies in the last two years... This Chinese firm will explore and exploit metallic and non-metallic minerals in the Nicaraguan Autonomous Region of the Northern Caribbean (RACN), inhabited mainly by Miskitu and Mayagna Indians...