The mining officials, Christian Pineda and Renan Santamaria, could face up to six years in jail if convicted of contaminating water and polluting the environment around the San Martin gold mine, the largest open-cast gold mine in Central America until its closure in 2008.

Pineda and Santamaria are employed by Entre Mares, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Goldcorp Inc., a gold-mining company based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Tanya Todd, Goldcorp’s corporate communications manager, said Aug. 17th that the company would defend the criminal action against its two employees. She also denied information in the December report by the English and Welsh bishops’ Catholic Agency for Overseas Development.

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