Eviction of Artisinal MinersInteresting that the governement is taking such a pro-active stance regarding the illegal mining. Not sure of the near term impact but certainly a positve long-term if the govenment sticks with it.
In case your intersted in some of the in-country reporting related to the company news release regarding the government intervention to evict the artisisinal miners. The Spanish new blurb can be found :
https://caracol.com.co/emisora/2016/04/25/medellin/1461584512_699688.html
a brief update suggesting the number of police increased from 500-1500 and the number of evictiees increased to 600 can be found:
https://www.noticiascaracol.com/colombia/en-buritica-desalojan-6000-mineros-ilegales
The google translate of the two news articles:
With about 500 members of the army and the police, the authorities launched an operation to evict illegal and informal miners who are in some rural areas of the municipality of Buritica, western Antioquia. People who would be evicted occupying an area of a concession of transnational Continental Gold that advances the project there, the country's largest gold mining, underground and machining. The secretary general of the National Confederation of Miners of Colombia, Ruben Dario Gomez Cano, acknowledged concern about the eviction of some 600 people who are on the sidewalk Seats and sectors San Roman and Canada, many of them ancient inhabitants of municipality, now engaged in artisanal mining. Mr. Gmez Cano asked the administrative authorities ordered the eviction that also reveal the protocols to perform this operation to guarantee the fundamental rights of the homeless, because from the beginning of these official actions the right to free movement was affected, and the passage was restricted on the road connecting the highway to the sea with the municipal head.
Secretary Conalminercol said some 3 000 500 miners working in 21 farms would be evicted from the area, it has been established that will happen to these people and how they will guarantee their fundamental rights to work , food, housing and health, among others . He said no alternatives for this people no solutions , as in previous operative have taken place and leaving Santa Fe de Antioquia, but once the situation has calmed people have returned to Buritica . The Buritica Project is the flagship project of high-grade gold Continental Gold, 100 % owned comprises an aggregate area of 61.784 hectares and consists of two main vein systems , with a rare combination of size , tenor, metallurgy and excellent growth potential .
Update
There is tension eviction of some 6,000 miners in Buritica , Antioquia. Mayor decreed since Sunday Prohibition, automotive mobilization banned in access roads to the city center and close gambling establishments . Humberto Antonio Brown suga , Mayor of the town, called illegal miners not to make things harder and for solutions to their situation in a concerted manner are sought. For his part , the representative of the National Confederation of Miners of Colombia , Ruben Gomez said that the area is unfolding a war scenario , since the presence of the authorities is armed and peacefully. According to the spokesman of some miners they have already been shifted to the municipalities of Segovia and Santa Fe de Antioquia .