Colombia’s coal industry on Tuesday called on the new energy and environment ministers to improve their coordination of the fast-growing but increasingly criticized mining industry. Colombia’s oil and mining boom…
South Korea’s leading steel maker Posco signed a preliminary agreement with Colombian energy developers Blue Pacific and Fanalca to form two joint ventures. Posco hopes to establish a company jointly…
The president of Colombia’s largest thermal coal miner Carbones del Cerrejon, Leon Teicher, is to step down from the position in December, the company said Tuesday. A Cerrejon spokesman…
Colombia’s largest coal producer, Cerrejon, plans to spend around 50-60 percent of a $1.3 billion expansion budget on construction and the rest on equipment, its president said on Wednesday. The…
Brazilian energy company MPX Energia SA has entered into contract negotiations to export Colombian coal to U.S., Asian, and European markets, Bloomberg reported Thursday. MPX is estimating that contracts will…
Mining giants BHP Billiton, Anglo American and Xstrata announced a $1.3 billion investment Thursday to boost production at Colombia’s Carbons of Cerrejon coal mine. The expansion project, named P40, will…
Colombia’s 30-million-ton-a-year Puerto Brisa port has been delayed to the second half of 2012 for further discussions with local indigenous communities, its president said. The world’s No. 4 coal exporter…
Coal production in Colombia, the world’s No. 5 exporter, rose 6% to 20.3 million tonnes in the first quarter of this year while exports jumped nearly 10%, the country’s mining…
Lawyers for the former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe have argued that comments made by the U.S. government over three weeks ago with regard to the request for his testimony in…