Quick facts of the day about gold mining in Haiti

"The square mileage now licensed for exploration to outside mineral and metal extractors is the equivalent of about 15 percent of the country’s total land mass." Letter From Haiti: Life in the Ruins | The Nation http://ht.ly/gKs7y


"While Dieuseul Anglade was [Director of the Bureau of Mines], the new government under President Micky Martelly, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU)... to authorize exploratory drilling.  Anglade felt that the agreement contravened Haitian law and refused to sign the document. Instead, he says, it was signed by the minister of public works, whose agency is in charge of the Bureau of Mines. Anglade himself was fired." Letter From Haiti: Life in the Ruins | The Nation http://ht.ly/gKs7y

Under Haitian law, Haiti’s share of the profits from these mines must total 50 percent. Under the terms of the MOU, the sections in Haiti’s longstanding mining conventions protecting that 50 percent have been eliminated.  Letter From Haiti: Life in the Ruins | The Nation http://ht.ly/gKs7y


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