Colombian authorities fear that some 70 miners may have been killed in an explosion in San Fernando coal mine in the north-western department of Antioquia. By Thursday afternoon, the corpses of 18…
Colombian coal miners working for Alabama-based Drummond Co. voted to go on strike after five weeks of salary negotiations stalled, a union leader said Monday. A majority of workers at…
Canadian mining company Greystar Resources announced Monday that it won an appeal against the Colombian Environment Ministry’s decision to compel the firm to redesign its Angostura gold and silver mine,…
Several multinational companies with activities in Colombia are ‘to be tried’ in Madrid this weekend during the fourth Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (TPP). Most cases deal with violations of human rights…
Shares of Greystar Resources plunged on Monday after the company said it had been asked to redesign its key Angostura gold project to conform to new Colombian mining regulations. Greystar…
Ricardo de Jesus Martinez Torres, the brother of Colombia’s Mining and Energy Minister Hernan Martinez, was assassinated on Tuesday night while driving between Cartagena and the northern town of Turbaco,…
AngloGold Ashanti, the world’s No. 3 gold producer, could invest $2.5 billion to $3 billion to build a gold mine in Colombia if feasibility studies show the project is viable,…
The president of Colombia’s National Business Association, Luis Carlos Villegas, announced Friday that the country has found new markets for almost $2 billion worth of products previously exported to Venezuela, El…
Canadian mining firm Medoro Resources plans to invest between $30 million and $40 million over two years in the recently purchased Frontino goldmines, located in the central Colombian Antioquia department,…