{"id":1871,"date":"2015-04-30T10:19:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T07:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miningwatch.ro\/sitenou\/?p=1871&lang=en"},"modified":"2015-10-28T12:20:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T10:20:54","slug":"english-no-silver-lining-for-the-certej-cyanide-gold-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miningwatch.ro\/en\/english-no-silver-lining-for-the-certej-cyanide-gold-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: No silver lining for the Certej cyanide gold mine"},"content":{"rendered":"Top reasons why Eldorado Gold investors should stay away from Certej<\/em><\/p>\n

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Romania, April 29, 2015 — Mining Watch Romania in association with 22 Romanian and international NGOs is pleased to present Anticipating Surprise-Assessing Risk: An investors’ guide to Eldorado Gold’s Certej mine proposal (TSX:ELD)<\/em><\/a>. The report exposes a compendium of risks associated with the Certej gold project and highlights some less evident or known facts that in return are likely to impair ELD\u2019s ability to develop it.<\/p>\n

Eldorado Gold, a low cost Canadian gold mining company, intends to open Romania\u2019s first cyanide based open-pit gold mine. The Certej deposit is owned by Deva Gold S.A., a joint venture between Eldorado Gold (80%) and state-owned Minvest Deva (~20%). The proposal is facing both strong national and international opposition.<\/p>\n

Due to opposition Eldorado\u2019s Certej project has already undergone multiple changes; reflected in the significant increase of initial capital costs. Forecasted capital and production costs and projected revenues as published by ELD are based on over-optimistic and unverified projections in terms of costs and prices. Eldorado\u2019s embellished story of its financial soundness has been called into question by analysts who have recently downgraded Eldorado Gold Corp from Buy to Hold due to \u2018costs higher than expected\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cEldorado\u2019s Certej project caught the full attention of environmental NGOs in the region. An increasing number of Romanian citizens demand transparency in the permitting process as opposed to the murky previous procedures<\/em>\u201d says Ionut Apostol from Greenpeace Romania.<\/p>\n

The attempts on the part of ELD\u2019s management to circumvene Romanian legal procedures was spotted by watchful citizens\u2019 organisations who alerted the public and national supervisory authorities. Any further attempts to take advantage of servile, unscrupulous local officials is likely to induce additional reputational damage for Eldorado and will likely give rise to additional litigation cases. ELD\u2019s environmental certificate is currently subject to litigation brought forward by civil society organisations active at Rosia Montana (TSX:GBU).<\/p>\n

Romania\u2019s most relevant and successful social movement for the past 25 years was triggered by opposition to a gold mining project – Rosia Montana. As has been the case with Rosia Montana, with Certej it is also becoming evident that the less transparent and the more corrupt a proposal is, the more risky it is.<\/p>\n

\u201cEldorado obtained permits whose legality is either being questioned in courts [1] or have already been proven illegal<\/a>. The profit margin of the Certej operation does not allow Eldorado to engage in media & advocacy campaigns or in legal battles comparable to Gabriel Resources. And even if it did, in light of the situation above it\u2019s best for investors to drop out while losses are relatively small<\/em>\u201d adds Roxana Pencea of Mining Watch Romania.<\/p>\n

According to Stefania Simion, strategic litigation coordinator for the Save Rosia Montana campaign: \u201cEldorado promotes a low cost mining project in a country that faced two devastating cyanide mining accidents. We will take all necessary measures to make sure no detail is left unchecked and any small irregularity will be signaled to both the public and supervising authorities.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Eldorado Gold, just like Gabriel Resources more than ten years ago, tends to minimise and interpret the heavy risks of the Certej mine, thus exposing investors to uncertainty and hazard. Certej, just like Rosia Montana, is not a “quality” asset, as management presents it, for technical, financial, social and legal reasons described in the report. Low gold prices make the project\u2019s profit margin very precarious, especially because management has not acknowledged that without the “social licence” there is a very high political risk associated. \u201cShareholders should be skeptical of a company management that is willing to expose them to such risks without full disclosure and discussion<\/em>\u201d, comments Jamie Kneen of Mining Watch Canada.<\/p>\n

\u201cRomania will not have murky mines with significant social, environmental and economic costs forced upon it to the benefit of corrupt officials and misleading company management. Investors should turn to Rosia Montana to assess what risk and cost this really represents<\/em>,\u201d says Stephanie Roth, a volunteer with the Save Rosia Montana campaign.<\/p>\n[1]\u00a0Court action registered under file no. 4024\/117\/2014 at the Cluj County Tribunal.<\/p>\n

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\nFor more information contact:
\nMining Watch Canada — Jamie Kneen on +1 613 761-2273
\nMining Watch Romania — Eugen Melinte on +1 514 893-9239
\nMining Watch Romania — Roxana Pencea on +40 (0) 723 024300
\nAlburnus Maior and the Save Rosia Montana campaign — Stefania Simion
\non +40 (0) 741 137266
\nAlburnus Maior and the Save Rosia Montana campaign — Stephanie Roth
\non +49 151 57472625
\nGreenpeace Romania — Ionut Apostol on +40 (0) 721 251207","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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