One of the problems of doing empirical research on this sector is that there is no central clearing house of information on social conflicts between mining companies and local activist groups.
I use the term “known conflicts” very specifically to indicate conflicts that have been identified by activist groups and recorded. The data we use for our list of conflicts comes from various Latin American activist groups. We basically take their accusation of conflict having occurred as a.... It scores a “1” on our database, and it therefore enters the database as a conflict.