Six people dead after allegedly attack the dynamite in Bolivia from Golden Mining Sukos Mining News

It is considered that a dynamite attack is as a result of two mining collectives fighting with access to gold deposits.

The conflict between mining operations in Bolivia resulted in an explosion that was killed by six people, towards power.

On Thursday, the explosion rocked the Yani mining camp about 150 kilometers – or 90 miles – northwest of the administrative capital in the country, La Paz.

“There are six dead, and we have reports on missing people,” said Jhonny Silva, a representative from one of the mining groups, Hijos de Ingenio Rudary Cooperative.

That mining collective allegedly aroused with another group, known as Senor de Mayo, in dynamite-laden battles with access to gold mining. The explosion left the houses of damaged and the city of Sorat without power.

“They branched machines with the dynamite, even a diesel tank,” Silva said for the rival cooperative.

The collections developed in Bolivia as an alternative to the state and private company. Critics have accused these large companies to provide unstable employment for mining workers with small incomes, their jobs that have mastered market fluctuations.

The collectors began to abolish in the echo of several economic crises, especially in 1985. year, when international mineral prices and the State Mining company Corpackión Minera de Bolivia (Comibol) temporarily closed.

This is the remains of tens of thousands of Bolivian miners without work. As Bolivia were privatized by the mines, the collectives offered space to miners to self-organize. Some would ultimately draw a can, silver, gold and zinc which will be sold to private companies.

The collections now represent the majority of the mining worker, counting his colleagues on Comibol and in the private sector. Therefore, they had significant political power, despite their relatively modest ability to separate minerals, compared to large companies.

The estimates placed the number of gold mining collectives at about 1,600. But the critics of the cooperative system warn that there are few measurable measures for workers, which are exposed to toxic conditions in the extraction process.

Opponents also note that – while cooperatives are legally – some of their mining activity are not, and this can lead to destruction and environmental pollution.

The informal nature of the papers also led to deadly conflicts, in order to join the access to mining places and markets in which metals will sell and raise investments.

Fights sometimes include workers and security forces. The state company became the largest company of Bolivia, partly launched favorable policies under the former Socialist President Evo Morales, who led the country since 2006. until 2019. years.

In 2012, for example, tensions between Comibol and the collective have led to a road blockade and a deadly dynamite attack in La Paz.

On Thursday, the dynamitic attack between the collective, however, only alone alone, according to Silva.

Colonel Gunther Agudo, a local police officer, told the local media that the dynamitic attack “caused the explosion of great size”.

“We continue to save efforts,” he said.