Six security contractors working for Canadian-listed miner Continental Gold were killed after an explosion at an illegal gold mine in central Colombia, the company said on Saturday (July 29). The…
At least eight miners at an underground coal mine in Colombia have died and five more are missing after an explosion caused by methane gas, the national mining agency said…
Mining could become Colombia’s economic growth engine with investments of at least $1.5 billion a year over the next five years if the government guarantees legal certainty to businesses, 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.…
South African mining giant AngloGold Ashanti announced Thursday it has given up on plans for the world’s largest open-pit goldmine in central Colombia’s Cajamarca after the town almost unanimously voted to ban…
Colombia’s government sided with mining giant AngloGold Ashanti on Monday, claiming Sunday’s vote in the central Colombian town of Cajamarca to ban mining has no consequences for what would be…
In a historic vote, a central Colombia town banned plans to build what would be the ‘world’s largest open pit goldmine,” creating a major stand-off with multinational mining giant Anglo Gold Ashanti,…
Illegal armed groups and informal miners extract approximately 80% of the gold on the market in Colombia, according to the Colombian Mining Association (ACM). ACM chairman Santiago Angel told newspaper El…
Colombia is one of Latin America’s largest producers of gold, formally extracting 55.9 tons of the precious metal per year. However, the vast majority of gold mining in Colombia is informal,…