El ámbito legal y social de la minería en el cantón Cuenca

Abstract

Mining is a technique used by humans for exploitation or extraction of minerals. In our country the direction of the mining policy it is up to the President of the republic as stipulated by the Mining Act. The State is responsible of managing and controlling the mining industry. The President is the one that generates public policies to help bring forward the development of the country through foreign and domestic investment. The Mining Law currently distinguishes two types of mining rights, which are the preferential duty and the right of prospecting. These rights fall on the subject miners who are natural persons and legal entities whether national or foreign, public or private. The mining activity develops with the delivery of mining concessions which give a right through the competent authority in favor of a particular, still an exclusive right of the same to be able to explore the fields provided. As well we have that the extractive mining has begun to develop in leaps generating projects that will affect a large part of the provinces of our country; in particular measure to the provinces of the Azuay and Zamora Chinchipe, among the major projects of large-scale mining of Cuenca are Quimsacocha Basin and Rio Blanco, which are in advanced stages of exploration. These projects seek to exploit in a time of twenty-five generear achieving a new source of income for the country despite environmental areas will destroy. Mining to continue in an extractive process as it was with the oil.