The Instituto Nacional de Protección Ambiental (Inpra), an office of the Presidency of the Republic, confirmed that the Rosario Dominicana mine is contaminating the Cotuí area with its toxic residuals. El Siglo newspaper carries a report confirming that the Margajita and Mejita rivers in the province of Sánchez Ramírez are affected. The toxic waste treatment plants of the mining plant are out of service. Press reports in the past have said that it is more expensive for the Dominican government to not finalize a new contract for the processing of the sulfide reserves of the mine than to go ahead. Conflicting interests boycotted the Salomon Brothers supervised bid, with major foreign companies abandoning the bid after investing millions of dollars in preparation works.
