Legislation passed in 2017 put a halt to industrial mining but as the central American country goes to the polls, the government has hinted at its return Words and photographs by Camilo Freedman in San Salvador El Salvadors Santa Elena mine once belonged to a US company, Butters Salvador Mining, which between 1904 and 1954 extracted 32 tons of gold from it. Abandoned by Butters during the countrys lengthy and bloody civil
