September 29th, 2011
It’s an open secret that the mining industry is starting to take a special place in the beginning of this century of this fledging millennium, because earlier times have been overcome as the stone or bronze ages, concerning the way how materials where extracted, since this industry has given a qualitative leap that facilitates the exploitation and development of mining in a friendly coexistence with the natural surroundings and the environment.
That’s how strongly the bimonthly newsletter Guacamaya Verde editorialized, corresponding to the month of July and August, that is edited by the Petaquilla Gold S.A. Company, led by the Panamanian businessman Richard Fifer-Carles in defense of the mining industry in panama, stating that “this activity has evolved significantly in order to contribute to the conservation of the environment and develop the mining exports in a friendly manner with the natural environment”, he said.
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Tags: gold, mining, panama, richard fifer
September 26th, 2011
It is a monument which as if it were a watchtower monitoring the Caribbean Sea from the mouth of the Chagres River, leaving testimony of glorious days, victories and defeats, which marked the colonial period in Panama: Fort St. Laurence, whose tourism potential can make it one of the most attractive places in Panama.
Thus was seen by CEO of Public Enterprises in the Extremadura Region in Spain, Jaime Ruiz Peña, fascinated by the colonial and historical environment surrounding St. Laurence, after making a gentleman’s agreement with Colon’s governor, Pedro Rios, in which he commits himself to promoting tourism development in Fort St. Laurence, and whose witness was the Castilla del Oro Foundation, founded by engineer Richard Fifer Carles.
“I promised before the governor of Colón, bearing witness to the president of the Castilla del Oro Foundation, the Duke of Veragua, Cristobal Colon de Carvajal, to do everything possible to create a first class tourism product at Fort St. Lauremce,” said Ruiz Peña.
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Tags: gold, mining, panama, richard fifer
September 25th, 2011
One of the most emblematic initiatives driven by the Castilla del Oro Foundation, under the leadership of entrepreneur Richard Fifer Carles, is the renovation of the San Sebastian Inn of Ocu, with which they will return the splendor to this iconic structure, and positively impact this region.
It is about a town which tourism product is supported by the festivities that take place throughout the year, including the Fair and San Sebastian’s Patron Saint’s Day, Carnival, Holy Week, Manito Festival, all of folkloric, popular, and traditional character.
The works that will be done by the Castilla del Oro Foundation have a cost of 250 thousand dollars and currently, are in the process of lifting the project. Once the renovation is completed, this installation will boost other tourist attractions like other fairs and interest sites for the visitors, where different types of tourism can take place, among them, Religious Tourism, Historic and Cultural Tourism, Folkloric Tourism, given the authenticity of some manifestations, the Manitos and the mejorana dances.
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Tags: gold, mining, richard fifer, tourism
September 25th, 2011
Madrid, September 2011
The Castilla del Oro Foundation, lands in Spain with a new project, more precisely in Huelva (Andévalo Hill). For this reason we invite you to learn the history, customs and life in general of this place in old Europe, in which the La Castilla del Oro Foundation takes on a new challenge: develop what its driver, engineer Richard Fifer – Carles calls Second Generation Social Responsibility.
EL CASTILLEJO
In the privileges granted to Seville by Ferdinand III and Alfonso X -”… as waters run in Guadalcarranque and… Zufre, Aracena, Alfayat del Campo, Almonaster, Cortegana … “(AMADOR DE LOS RIOS, 1983) – it appears that Alfayat del Campo that, by its order in enumeration and geographic ordering that the text follows, it suggests that it may be identified with Cerca Alta in the vicinity of what is today Cerro de Andévalo (PEREZ ROLDAN, FUNES AND LORCA, 1987).
The A.M.E.C. documentation allows, thanks to the place names of the fields, locate this fort, but with the name of Castillejo, which also uses the municipal terminology of El Cerro for many other places.
In Don Jacinto Marquez’s will, a native of El Cerro, who lived between 1675 and 1753, reaching political relevance, the following farms are recorded: Juradilla Lands, Umbria del Castillo and fenced immediately, Umbria of Castillejo, olive post; the Carrinchosas, Jaroso, Tejoneras … among others, which are of no interest now.
This Castillejo, with shade of olive trees, can be identified with current place names near Cerca Alta because by defining the town preserves appears sometimes as “Port of the enclosure of the heirs of Jacinto Márquez” and others as “Puerto de la Peña del Castillejo” between the same two consecutive landmarks.
The fort has an interior perimeter of 350 meters inside their north-south axis and east-west measure 77 and 88 m, respectively. The wall’s width composed of pieces of basic rocks, which sometimes have considerable weight, often reach more than two meters, and according to the need for fortification, more than three meters high.
Among the potsherds collected this exhibition highlights prima visu Jewish crosses to the seal.
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Tags: gold, mining, richard fifer, tourism
September 25th, 2011
After the minister of Commerce and Industries (MICI), Ricardo Quijano, declared that within a month the government will present to the National Assembly the preliminary draft that will modify the Mineral Resources Code, the environmentalist Rosa Banfield, recognized it was a past due debt.
Banfield was one of the most critical voices when the Executive office first presented the changes to the Mining Code to the Panamanian parliament, which were first approved, but because of the pressure from environmentalist groups, union members, and natives, were revoked, leaving a legal void since it allowed illegal mining among other things.
Currently, Petaquilla Gold S.A., under the direction of engineer Richard Fifer Carles, is the only company exploiting a mining deposit in the area, paying attention to the established environmental laws and demonstrating their consent to pay higher royalties to the government and the municipality, once the reforms to the Mineral Resources Code are approved.
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September 25th, 2011
In the old glory times that marked the colonial era in Panama personalized in the San Lorenzo Fort, inspired the Spanish delegation to call the Foundation Castilla del Oro, during their recent visit by the international president, the Duke of Veragua, Cristobal Colon de Carvajal.
And in the very ruins of San Lorenzo, in the presence of the Duke of Veraguas, a gentleman’s agreement was sealed, without any signature, among the Public Company of the Autonomous Region of Extramadura in Spain, and the Governors of Colon, with the end to make this point a site of first class tourism site.
The pact was agreed by the governor of Colon, Pedro Rios, and the general director of the Public Companies of the Autonomous Region of Extremadura of Spain, Jaime Ruiz Peña, having as witness of honor the Foundation Castilla del Oro, under the direction of the engineer Richard Fifer Carles, which collaborated together to accomplish this mission.
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September 25th, 2011
As a part of the Petaquilla Gold S.A.’s Environment and Hydrology’s department responsibility, this technical unit has develop the program “Integrated Management of Solid Waste” which consists in recycling material such as paper, plastic and organic composting, with the purpose of eliminating the environmental risks in the project’s functioning processes.
Because of the importance of maintaining a conserving the environment, Petaquilla Gold S.A., led by entrepreneur Richard Fifer-Carles, is governed by an internal environmental legislation and a protocol to discard oils and lubricants from the many machines used in the project, for which they count with measures of environmental risk prevention against any eventuality that could be presented on the work field.
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September 25th, 2011
The apocalyptic vision of those who without any scientific basis predict a panorama, a devastating climate, is far away from the vision and projection of companies that like Petaquilla Gold, S. A. under the vision of engineer Richard Fifer-Carles look far beyond mining and visualize further lifespan development for Molejon gold sites.
Engineer Fifer Carles himself expressed this vision during the celebration of the Miner’s Day, in which he pointed out that the company will continue to promote the progress of it once the gold extraction stage is concluded, through the sustainable development project of “Petarcilla”.
It’s about a project that the subsidiary company Panama Desarrollo de Infraestructura (PDI for its acronym in Spanish, Panama Infrastructure Development) performs, and whose objectives are to improve the existing environmental conditions in the area near the mining project, the damage prevention of the environment, strengthening harmonical relations with the community and the generation of direct and indirect jobs.
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September 23rd, 2011
LA CASTILLA DEL ORO FOUNDATION IN SPAIN: A NEW DESTINY
Calañas: cultural crossbreeding, meeting of civilizations
Madrid, september 201
La Castilla del Oro foundation, lands with a new project in Spain, more precisely in Huelva (Cerro del Andévalo). For that reason we invite you to become acquainted with the history, customs and general life of this place in the old Europe,in which La Castilla del Oro Foundation takes on a new challenge; it will develop what is named by its driving force; engineer Richard Fifer – Carles; Second Generation Social Responsibility.
After the resurgence of the mining activity that happened fundamentally on the second half of the XIX century, Calañas had lived another of its prosperity stages, in which the population increased in an accelerated manner and faced the turn towards the XX century with a reported optimism.
Although very affected by the political setbacks of the XX century Spain and alternating moments of great prosperity than others, the mining activity was in this case responsible for the sustained development that Calañas enjoyed until the sixties.
Starting on that decade and because of the progressive shutting of the mines, Calañas is submerged in the crisis that affects all its surroundings and that continues until this moment.
Facing the closing of the mines, Calañas solely counted in general outlines with a livelihood agriculture, insufficient economic activity to act as a refuge sector and solve the needs of a society that had grown to the rythm of the explotation of the mineral resources.
The consequence of the crisis that has affected many towns of the district, has been a masive exodus of population towards other spanish regions and even towards foreing countries.
All the cultures and economic activities that were present in Calañas stopped, in a gradual form, their impression in the town and its people, both fruit of what they were and what they had; Calañas keeps in its physiognomy and the carachter of its people the riches and plurality of its history.
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Tags: gold, mining, panama, richard fifer, tourism
September 21st, 2011
The sub director of the Historical Heritage of the National Institute of Culture, Yamileth Stanziola emphasized that the shrines that exist in the church of the district of San Francisco de la Montana, in the province of Veraguas, declared national heritage of the country, have an incalculable value, since they are a true piece of art that must be maintained and taken care of, and that the interest of the Historical Heritage is to collaborate to keep them safe, as well to recover and maintain the structure of the holy temple.
Stanziola said that the office in which she is the sub director has being willing to support the project that would recover the tower of San Francisco de la Montana, and because this is a historical monument it needs to comply with that sensibility to the criteria and heritage values, also a good practice so the community have the knowledge and a little bit of teaching of what is done on the property.
“The community is very concerned with this monument, because it is the main church of the area of San Francisco de la Montana, the ALTARES that exist there are incalculable, it’s a true piece of art that must be maintained and take care of and that the main interest of the Heritage office has being to collaborate” said the sub director.
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