El Salvador's gold reserves could be worth an astounding three trillion dollars - representing over 8,800% of the country's current GDP. Bukele argues that mining just 4% of the country's gold ...

along with Mr. Bukele’s insistence that mining could be conducted without causing environmental damage. “The studies that Bukele is talking about…that say there is gold in El Salvador ...

Hundreds protested in El Salvador last Sunday (19 January) following the government's decision late last year to reverse a mining ban. President Nayib Bukele announced late last year that mining ...

In November, the highly popular Bukele proposed mining gold. The county’s unmined gold could be “wealth that could transform El Salvador,” he wrote on the social platform X. He has estimated ...

This article is part of a four-piece series on El Salvador. You can find the previous dispatch, a story on Bitcoin Berlín, ...

El Salvador in Central America, which was named the world's first metal mining ban seven years ago and praised by conservationists, has decided to allow mining to develop gold mines. El Salvador's ...

HUNDREDS of people have protested in the centre of El Salvador’s capital against ... but I do” and “water is worth more than gold.” They also called on the rest of the population to join the ...

Cryptocurrency mining in El Salvador has been significantly successful in recent months, and it's powered by a surprising source of energy: Earth itself. According to a report by Cryptopolitan ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador's Congress approved Monday a law that would lift the country’s seven-year-old ban on mining for metals. The law, proposed by President Nayib Bukele ...