Colombia’s ‘gold queen’ exported $100M in illegal gold per year: police
A woman from Cali has been dubbed Colombia’s “gold queen” after police accused her of exporting more than three metric tons of illegally mined gold to the United States. Mara…
A woman from Cali has been dubbed Colombia’s “gold queen” after police accused her of exporting more than three metric tons of illegally mined gold to the United States. Mara…
Colombia’s mining minister has called for international regulation for gold similar to that imposed on the diamond trade to curb illegal mining in the country, according to US news network Bloomberg.…
Illegal armed groups and informal miners extract approximately 80% of the gold on the market in Colombia, according to the Colombian Mining Association (ACM). ACM chairman Santiago Angel told newspaper El…
Colombia is one of Latin America’s largest producers of gold, formally extracting 55.9 tons of the precious metal per year. However, the vast majority of gold mining in Colombia is informal,…
Canadian company Gran Colombia Gold said Wednesday it will suspend contracts of some 1,000 miners while paramilitary successor group AGC threatened to assassinate those who are blocking the company’s activity in northern Colombia. The…
Opposition lawmakers in Colombia have proposed a bill that aims to cut the use of mercury and other toxic chemicals in illegal gold mining, that has polluted rivers and blighted…
Colombia president Juan Manuel Santos said Friday that searchers have found the wreck of a Spanish galleon that was sunk more than 300 years ago while carrying a big cargo…
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize is made out of “fairmined” Colombian gold, the Alliance for Responsible Mining announced Thursday.
A Kazakhstani national considered to be one of the top dogs in illegal mining in the Pacific coastal province of Choco, was arrested by police in Bogota on Monday.