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Mining and Indigenous Peoples in Colombia

Cerrejón coal mines, in La Guajira, thus began operating and a public company, Carbones de Colombia, S.A. or Carbocol, was established for this purpose. In 1976, a Partnership Agreement was signed between this company and Intercor, a subsidiary of the North American Exxon Mobil Corp.

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Cerrejon Open-pit Coal Mine, La Guajira, Colombia

Mines. During the late 1980s, Drummond acquired the mining rights to significant coal reserves in northern Colombia, near La Loma, Cesar. Development commenced in the early 1990s. The characteristics of our Colombian coal compare favorably with those of other internationally marketed steam coals. Drummond's coal is one of the lowest sulfur ...

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Mining and conflict in Colombia - Peace Organization PAX

Mining activities have been going on in conflict or high-risk areas leading to adverse impacts on human rights. In Colombia, PAX works together with local communities and victims' organizations in the Cesar department to address these impacts, improve the security situation and promote dialogue between different actors in the region.

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COAL MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA - USGS

Coal Mines and Occurrences in Colombia 29 Coal Mines and Occurrences in Ecuador 31 Coal Mines and Occurrences in Guyana 32 Coal Mines and Occurrences in Paraguay 33 ... lan and Colombian coal will probably increase in the near future. Deforestation is an environmental concern in many parts of South America. For this reason, coal as an alterna­

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The struggle against Colombia's largest coal mine

Campaigners fighting the world's biggest mining giants in Colombia visit the UK's newest opencast coal mine. The alliance between Sintracarbon and the Wayúu is proof that it is possible for an industrial union hold a meaningful pro-workers agenda as well as standing against the expansion of the fossil fuel industry.

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Coal mining revenue in Colombia 2019 | Statista

Coal mining in Colombia generated a revenue of nearly 1.9 trillion Colombian pesos in 2019 (approximately 576 million U.S. dollars, based on …

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Colombia Looks To Ramp Up Coal Mining As Economy Struggles

This is because coal generates 85% of mining royalties, making it a key driver of government revenue, and is Colombia's second-largest export, after …

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UN asked to suspend Cerrejon coal mining in Colombia ...

UN asked to suspend Cerrejon coal mining in Colombia. The United Nations is being asked to call for the suspension of coal mining in the Provincial Reserve in la Guajira, Colombia, due to the COVID-19 emergency. Statement from Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo (José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers' Collective), Bogota, Colombia, 20 June 2020.

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Coal mine explosion kills 11 miners in Colombia

An explosion at a coal mine in Colombia's central Cundinamarca department has claimed the lives of at least 11 miners. The incident took place at the Veracruz coal mine, which is a legal operation in the Cucunubá municipality of Colombia. According to the Governor of Cundinamarca, Nicolas Garcia, the explosion was due to the accumulation of ...

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Colombia's Coal Mining Ambitions Could Backfire | OilPrice.com

As the world turns its back on coal, Colombia is looking to ramp up production of the fossil fuel, a move that could wind up hurting its oil industry. As the world turns its back on coal, Colombia is looking to ramp up production of the fossil fuel, a …

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Glencore to abandon mining in Colombia amid growing woes

The last months . The United Nations' Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, David Boyd, urged the Colombian government to order Prodeco, AngloGold Ashanti and BHP to suspend operations in the Cerrejon mine, the country's largest open-pit coal mine …

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Cerrejon Coal Mine, Colombia | GLAN

GLAN has filed complaints against three international mining giants (BHP, Anglo American and Glencore) and Ireland's state-owned energy provider, the ESB, over serious human rights abuses and devastating environmental pollution at the Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia.

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About Us | Inter-American Coal

Inter-American Coal is a leading supplier and producer of high-quality thermal coal, metallurgical coal, and coke from South America. Through integration of coal mining, trading, marketing, and logistics, we have become a dominant competitor in the Colombian coal industry.

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List of mining areas in Colombia - Wikipedia

491 This is a list of mining areas in Colombia. The mineral industry of Colombia is large and …

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Coal from Colombia arriving soon - YourStockNews

Also, an inter-ministerial team which has representatives of the Central Electricity Authority, Coal India Ltd, and Power System Operation Corporation, has been formed to monitor the supply. South American nation Colombia is sending coal to India later this year, which will help in dealing with the shortage here. Confirming this to Financial Express Online, a […]

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Top mining companies in Colombia | Statista

Colombia: largest mining companies 2019, by revenue. In 2019, Ecopetrol S.A. was by far the largest company in the mining and hydrocarbon extraction sector in Colombia…

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Colombia and coal - SourceWatch

This page was last edited on 15 January 2020, at 14:33. Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. SourceWatch is a …

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Colombia rescues coal miners who were trapped for 5 days

In this photo released by Colombia's Presidential Press Office, Colombia's President Ivan Duque, right, welcomes one of the three miners that were rescued after 5 days of being trapped in a mine that collapsed in Lenguazauqe, Colombia, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020.

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Burning problems: Estimating the social and environmental ...

Through an in-depth economic analysis of coal mining in Cesar, Colombia, a researcher concludes that the environmental and social costs of coal mining outweighs the coal's market price — even when the global cost of carbon is not taken into account.

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Coal from Colombia arriving soon - The Financial Express

18 Coal represents around 54 percent of Colombia's mining exports and the country is the sixth carbon exporter globally, with a share of 6.3 percent which is equivalent to 50 per annum carbon ...

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Colombia coal production down 47% year-on-year in third ...

Coal production in Colombia, the world's fifth-largest exporter of the fuel, fell 47.2% in the third quarter amid a national coronavirus lockdown and an ongoing strike at a major mine…

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How REDD greenwashes Glencore's coal mining operations in ...

Glencore's coal mining operations in Colombia. Glencore, through its subsidiary Prodeco, runs two massive open cast coal mines in the Department of Cesar. From Cesar, the coal is transported by railway to ports near Santa Marta. About 95% of the coal is exported, about half to Europe. The impact of the mines is devastating.

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Living in the Shadow of Colombia's Largest Coal Mine

The morning silence is broken by a pounding sound, emanating from a nearby mining pit just a few hundred meters from the community. Photo Ynske Boersma El Cerrejón is among the world's largest coal mines. Communities in La Guajira, one of Colombia's poorest provinces, say mining activities are polluting their water and harming their health.

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Acid Drainage of Coal Mining in Cundinamarca Department ...

Abstract. Colombia is the largest Latin American coal producer and the seventh largest world exporter. It has large coal reserves, a fact that is of great interest for assessing its current state relative to planning its sustainable exploitation, in order to successfully assume the challenges of the next century.

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Bank of America and Drummond Coal in Colombia - The ...

These resettlements were ordered by the Colombian government, due to the high levels of air pollution and dust from the coal mines. These communities should have been relocated two years ago because of the dangers that coal ash poses to people's health, including respiratory diseases, such as lung cancer, skin and ocular diseases.

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Nanoparticles from evaporite materials in Colombian coal ...

The precipitates were sampled in several coal mining areas in Colombia, with the purpose of evaluating the geochemical and environmental structures. In the present work, to better diagnose areas affected by coal mining, an innovative analytical procedure is proposed to define the association between PHEs in mine drainage sediments.

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Lesson Plan: Coal Mining in Colombia -- Is it Worth the ...

Colombian Coalmine by Anna-Katarina Gravgaard, Colombia, 2011. April 5, 2011 marks the one-year commemoration of the deadly explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, West ia. This lesson plan explores the growing coal mining industry in Colombia…

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Mines - Drummond Ltd. Colombia

Mines. During the late 1980s, Drummond acquired the mining rights to significant coal reserves in northern Colombia, near La Loma, Cesar. Development commenced in the early 1990s. The characteristics of our Colombian coal compare favorably with those of other internationally marketed steam coals. Drummond's coal is one of the lowest sulfur ...

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Glencore snaps up BHP, Anglo stakes in Colombian coal mine ...

Cerrejon, where current mining concessions are due to expire in 2034, is an integrated mining and transportation complex in Colombia's La Guajira province, in the northeastern part of …

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Colombia's Cerrejon coal mine suspend operations due to ...

Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia halts operations. Credit: Albert Hyseni on Unsplash. The Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia has been reportedly closed after two blockades deter gasoline supplies. The first blockade started on Cerrejon's railway line on 5 May and was led by a group of former workers, reported Reuters.

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Colombia Coal Reserves and Consumption Statistics ...

Colombia consumes 11,385,457 Tons (short tons, "st") of Coal per year as of the year 2016.; Colombia ranks 36th in the world for Coal consumption, accounting for about 1.0% of the world's total consumption of 1,139,471,430 tons.; Colombia consumes 236,335 cubic feet of Coal per capita every year (based on the 2016 population of 48,175,052 people), or 647 cubic feet per capita per day.

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Colombia and coal - Global Energy Monitor

Colombia's total coal exports for 2010 came in at 68.14 million tons. Carlos Rodado, Colombia's mining minister, has said coal output will reach 144 million tons in 2020. In 2012, Vale Colombia agreed to sell its thermal coal assets in Colombia for $407 million to a unit of Goldman Sachs.

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