Oil company Ecopetrol on Sunday suspended mining operations in central Colombia amid violent protests in which four workers were wounded, according to the state-run company. The decision comes after locals…
A “human error” spurred the controversial ruling by Colombia’s Supreme Court that ordered a business magazine to reveal confidential information that led to a story on the “questionable behavior” of…
Colombia’s government on Sunday vowed to ban mining in the unique Sierra Nevada mountain range after protests by indigenous communities that live in the nature reserve. Interior Minister Guillermo Gaviria…
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has vowed to invest $1 billion in a controversial gold mining operation in Colombia, Mining Minister German Arce announced during a visit to the Middle…
The future of the Santurban paramo in northeast Colombia has become uncertain after the Constitutional Court sank measures against mining in the unique ecosystem. According to the high court, the…
Following a landslide rejection of what would be the world’s largest gold mine in a town in central Colombia, seven more towns have voted to ban all mining territory. In…
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…
The provinces of Antioquia and Boyaca own 33% of the country’s 8,880 mining titles while Amazonas is one of three to be left unexploited, Colombia’s National Mining Agency revealed. Newspaper…
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…