Miners from northern Colombia suspend strike
Miners from one of Colombia’s most important gold mining regions said they have suspended a strike they went on more than a month ago. According to a representatives of the…
Miners from one of Colombia’s most important gold mining regions said they have suspended a strike they went on more than a month ago. According to a representatives of the…
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.…
Tons of rock and clay have fallen on top of an open pit gold mine in Colombia’s southwestern state of Cauca, trapping 17 miners and injuring another nine, local media reported on Wednesday.
Colombia’s national miners union (CONALMINERCOL) announced Tuesday it will be lifting its national work stoppage after nearly two months of nationwide strikes.
Colombia’s national government has successfully completed negotiations to bring to an end a six-week miners’ strike and a two-week strike organized by indigenous people in the southwest of the country.
For thousands of small and medium-scale miners who have been on strike throughout Colombia since the middle of July, Monday will be a day more or less similar to any…
Colombian miners’ union Conalmineracol on Sunday welcomed talks with the government after intervention by the UN human rights council.
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.