A protest of local miners that started off peacefully in two central Colombian towns has somehow created a humanitarian crisis, warned a human rights commission that visited the areas along…
Weeks of fruitless protests of local miners in central Colombia turned violent on Monday, injuring 12 and spurring the governor of Antioquia to militarize the towns of Segovia and Remedios…
Gran Colombia Gold, the Canadian-registered gold company once presided by Colombia’s former foreign minister, has sued the South American country for $700 million amid a series of exploitation disputes. While formally…
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…
Two key gold mining towns in the north of Colombia went on a massive strike Monday amid government attempts to shut down small mining operations and after the assassination of the local miners’…
A documentary on a Colombian mining town has been selected to take part in the competition for US documentaries at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
The CEO of exploration and mining company Grand Colombia Gold has said confrontations between criminal groups for illegal mining has resulted in 280 deaths this year in the northern Colombian Antioquia…
Two executives of Canadian company Gran Colombia Gold have been buying up shares, the mineral exploration giant announced Thursday. In the last two weeks Executive Co-Chairman Serafino Iacono bought 540,500 shares…
Canadian mining company Gran Colombia Gold has announced a $2 million investment in the department of Caldas, to aid with the relocation of the town of Marmato in order to…