please help me find information

Hello All,
I'm copying an e-mail I got from a young biologist friend of mine and wondered if someone in the forum could direct me to places that I might be able to get the information he has asked that I help him find.
I'm really new to doing this kind of thing and have no idea where to start. I know the FSTV community has lots of folks with experience in digging for dirt:>) so I would greatly appreciate any advice on where/how to start my search......
and thank you all so much for being here with this community. I am happy to have found FSTV a year or so ago and am grateful to you all for doing the work you do.
Sandi

"Hi Sandra...Can you help me please???...Well the story is this...Transnational companies wants to explote gold, niguel and others things in the mountains of Guatemala...The situation is critical because the pople (indigens) dont want it because they say that "they have not respect for the mother nature"....I will talk to you more deep later...

These are the companies:

Inco, Ltd. (Exmibal), Jaguar Nickel, Inc. (Minera Mayamérica, S.A.), Radius Exploration, Ltd. (Exploraciones Mineras de Guatemala, S.A. y Exmingua, S.A.). Glams Gold, Ltd. (Entremares, S.A. y Exploradora Montana, S.A.) y ITH Chemicals, LLC. ( Minera Quetzal, S.A., Representaciones Químicas, S.A., Químicos, S.A. Y Geominas, S.A.).

I want to know how they work, what they do with their polluting agents (cianuro)...

Here are some links...

http://www.terrelibere.org/terrediconfine/index.php?x=completa&riga=0574

http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/guatemala/incoexmibalabuses.html

http://orosucio.madryn.com/articulos/05_01_14.html

We need to understand the situation before we can infrom to the poeple and act..."