By: Mr. Vicente Encalada
Guayaquil, November 8, 2010.
ESPOL
When he finally finds the nail enriched, against all odds, including technical advice, the artisanal mining and small-scale, exclaimed with satisfaction: A lot to ask God is that nothing worth knowing !....
While mining requires very lucky to meet the random circumstances that are beyond the limited research or vacuum pre-investment studies, characteristic of metal mining, so far the only production in Ecuador: small-scale mining and artisanal gold.
What is most needed is responsibility to continue to develop and create their own space, have been welcomed by local communities and appreciation of Ecuadorian society.
"Knowledge is Responsibility," the Commander Ernesto Che Guevara. It is certainly true, if we know the consequences of our acts and actions, we can avoid adverse reactions and effects of mining operations.
miners are not organized or run many risks to go, sometimes in remote locations, to pollute water, air, soil, in order to destabilize the nature, but to extract mineral resources demanded by the standard of living of the society.
The start of mining production brings joy to investors and recipients of tax officials, but soon local claims arise by various "new" problems that disturb the domestic life of host communities. ;
This requires knowing the pre-existing problems and potential problems that can generate new mining operations.
Knowing requires research and scientific abstraction, there is the space for Higher Education in Minas Gerais, before having the opportunity, has the obligation to participate responsibly and systematized in the prevention and resolution of problems mining activities and impacts.
Now the applicant society ever more articles from oil and minerals, that company is not willing to tolerate the negative impacts of extractive operations.
Miners we have to respond by reformulating our concepts, we now need professionals that lead to mining with a focus on mine closure rather than the privileged "old" approach to production.
Mining Engineering should consider opening mines to be closed, while interested in the reserves, production rates, criticized the law, especially as a stay should be interested in space when no longer there is mine.
Asking questions such as:
- Infrastructure and facilities to be abandoned to abrasion factors of time?.
- water, soil, vegetation and fauna, wait for the chance of natural recovery?
- communities are immersed in the "litter" and longing for a better past?
- The tailings were deposited as potential sources of acid mine drainage and pollution?
- The country left without income or unemployed?
- always before constructing an artificial element or remove a natural deposit must ask the question: How will it work and when the mine closes?
Mine operators need of mining engineering to extract, transport, drain, vent and light, with appropriate techniques to ensure during the conduct of operations to mitigate the negative effects impacting on natural and social parameters, ensure physical and chemical stability after mine closure and sustainable projects in parallel could permit.
the current situation in Ecuador, the small-scale mining should be `enriched not only by high concentrations of the nails but by the widespread knowledge and innovative techniques for professional graduates of the School of Mines Institutes Higher Education.
The challenge is serious, because payments are regarded as professional fees and unnecessary costs, knowledge is less valued than luck, then who would play to demonstrate the value of knowledge is to it possess.
Sometimes university graduates are bitter because they are not "studied" do not give them opportunity and space and value to your preparation and have a reason because they first entered the university of mining practice where the levels are not approved for testing if results not .
Young graduates have to work hard to prove, that being that they knowledgeable? , They have an advantage to make operations more efficient and accountable. This implies suddenly enter into competition with the experience routinely taken as models enter the "correct" and "appropriate" and take the challenge of taking skills to innovate.
mines professionals must come prepared to do and always to study abreast of new problems that need new solutions to the difficult test to pass semi-annual cycles are repeated daily, then we need graduates who are willing to study to pass every day a new course of their professional practice.
small-scale mining in Ecuador have to be open to university graduates to be benefited by the added value of knowledge and scientific research. Impossible to do responsible mining claim no knowledge. Government regulations without training is a dead letter.
be responsible small mining claims to be creative because knowledge and technology is not a single book, equipment and tools not found in catalogs of high-tech brands. Be used in innovative knowledge and practices scattered in publications not written. The college graduate has an opportunity to create, innovate and adapt their talent to an unknown reality sometimes underestimated.
The professional technician must also have a perception to fit multiple cultural, social, economic and political, since it is not mining for mining, but in a global context where it should take full responsibility for legal compliance, tax payments, social security work, health and mine safety, good community relations, sustainable and environmental prevention projects.
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