Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos on Friday assigned the Minister of Labor to form a commission in order to address a union strike at Colombia’s most productive mine. BACKGROUND: Colombia’s most productive coal mine...
The rescue is underway to free eight miners trapped since Tuesday morning after a shaft collapsed inside a Cali coal mine. The Red Cross, the Civil Defense, police and firefighters are taking part in the rescue to free the...
A powerful explosion at an emerald mine in the north central Colombian department of Boyaca injured two workers after their apparent improper handling of dynamite, RCN Radio reported Tuesday. The blast took place at a mine in...
Two mining accidents in the department of Boyaca, northeast of Colombia’s capital Bogota, have left three workers dead and one trapped, newspaper El Tiempo reported Tuesday. The most recent accident took place in a mine...
Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of all 21 people killed in a north Colombian mining accident Wednesday morning, El Tiempo reported Thursday. Mine official Luis Alfonso Solorzano told the newspaper that the work was...
President Juan Manuel Santos cancels meetings at the World Economic Forum to return to Colombia following Wednesday’s mine explosion that left 21 dead. “Tomorrow I am going to return to the country to be with the...
Colombia’s minister of mining and energy orders the closure of the La Preciosa coal mine in the north of the country after Wednesday morning’s deadly blast reports Caracol Radio. Minister Carlos Rodado ordered the...
Accidents in two coal mines in Colombia’s central Cundinamarca department left five miners dead and at least six trapped, Caracol Radio reported Wednesday. The police commander of the region, Colonel Fabio Castañeda,...
The FARC controls 15 gold mines in the northern Colombia department of Bolivar and are estimated to receive COP1.6 billion ($850,000) per year from this business, newspaper El Espectador reported Tuesday. An intelligence officer...
