El Salvador's Congress on Monday approved a bill promoted by President Nayib Bukele to roll back a ban on the mining of gold ...
El Salvador in Central America, which was named the world's first metal mining ban seven years ago and praised by conservationists, has decided to allow ...
Bukele said last month that El Salvador, a country of 6.6 million people, had "potentially" the largest gold deposits per square ... over plans for a huge copper mine.
According to Bukele, the small Central American nation sits atop an estimated $3 trillion in unmined gold reserves—a potential jackpot that could radically transform El Salvador's financial future.
In a series of posts on the social network X he claimed that El Salvador, a country of 6.6 million people, had "potentially" the largest gold deposits per square kilometer in the world.