Ecuadorian military deploys rockets at Gina Rinehart’s goldfields

Ecuadorian armed forces launched an attack on illegal miners operating in a gold and copper mine licensed to Gina Rinehart’s company, blasting the shafts with a BM-21 rocket launcher and dispatching 300 soldiers to the area.

In developments that have not been reported in the English media so far, cricket It can reveal that Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa’s government earlier this month used heavy artillery, mortar fire and air support to crack down on illegal mines and camps in the Imba mining concession awarded to Hanrine Ecuador Exploration and Mining, a subsidiary of Hancock Prospecting.