Colombia miners on strike to demand better treatment from government
Colombian small and medium-sized mining entities on Wednesday went on strike to demand attention from the government who the strikers blame of preferring multinationals.
Colombian small and medium-sized mining entities on Wednesday went on strike to demand attention from the government who the strikers blame of preferring multinationals.
The Colombian government accused the FARC, Colombia’s leading guerrilla group, and the Urabeños, a neo-paramilitary group, of working together in illegal mining operations on Tuesday. Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon…
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…
Three people were killed in Medellin as a result of the “gold wars” that plague Colombia’s central northwestern Antioquia department. While on the way to his brother Hernan Torres’ funeral…
Colombian police seized a record amount of coltan from guerrilla smugglers in an indigenous village in the southern department of Vaupes near the Brazilian border on Tuesday. Police reported that…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced that 43.5 million acres throughout the country would become reserves for legal mining, according to Radio Caracol. The head state revealed the plan as…
Colombia’s Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Juan Caros Restrepo has appealed to authorities to increase controls on illegal mining, reported news website La Vanguardia Monday. Restrepo claimed more surveillance was…
Investigators have seized almost 5kg of gold and 800g of platinum on a boat in western Colombia, according to a press release. The minerals, estimated to be worth more than…
Colombia’s government is persecuting small-scale, informal miners “as if they were criminals, to clear their territories for the multinational mining companies,” said opposition Senator Jorge Enrique Robledo.