/first-quantum-to-halt-panama-mine-if-blockade-goes-on/ No 1 source of global mining news and opinion Thu, 23 Nov 2023 12:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 /first-quantum-to-halt-panama-mine-if-blockade-goes-on/#comment-318272 Thu, 23 Nov 2023 12:52:00 +0000 /?p=1132730#comment-318272 It’s paralyzed the entire country, NOT just Panama City. I live in the western part of the country. Only way we are getting fuel is from Costa Rica. People are waiting upwards of 27 hours for gas and paying $15 a gallon. We need propane to cook and most people are having to resort to campfires, if they can find dry wood at the end of the rainy season. People have been killed, injured. It’s been chaos and if the contract is not ruled unconstitutional it will go on for more weeks. We are now in week 5. It’s an awful situation. Do not minimise it.

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