RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:nervous but calming downthe artisanal miners on gcm land are underground miners. the largest artisinal mine (cogote? or something) is an underground mine. watch the recent video. they were happy to become legal contract workers and happy gcm was helping them do underground drilling.
as said before, those oz are lower grade lower margin and small percent of gcm total oz, and would not impact gcm financials much. there is no reason for gov to get rid of these legal workers.
there was an article that said the vice president chased out illegal miners that invaded her land. gcm are not invaders because they own their own land and have no illegal miners. that vice president is pro environment so is against use of mercury by artisinal miners. gcm is one of the cleanest miners in colombia.
menoalittle wrote: any "open pit" mining relating to GCM is probably the artisan miners (that bucked up against GCM for years.) ...so, If Petro goes after them, I suspect he'll have a war on his hands!