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Through its corporate channels, Minesa announced the culmination of the dialogue process to sign the formalization subcontract with Calimineros, Asociacin de Mineros de California, Santander. Through this alliance, they seek the well-being of traditional miners and their families, achieving the proposed objective: formalization.

 

Minesa completed the dialogue process to sign the largest formalization subcontract in the country with 160 miners from the Calimineros de California (Santander) company.    

Bucaramanga, September 15, 2020. After two years of dialogue and agreement, Minesa and Calimineros agreed on the terms of a formalization subcontract within the framework of the Government's mining policy, which will allow Calimineros to carry out legal mining, preserving the traditionality of this activity in the municipality of California. The next step will be approval by the National Mining Agency (ANM).

This great advance is one more step in the challenge of creating conditions to develop legal mining with social, economic and environmental standards; It is the result of the efficient application of the policies of the National Government, and of the support of the institutions in the mining regions.

“ I want to highlight the management and support of the Ministry of Mines and Energy and the USAID Legal Gold Program, which led us to the participatory construction of the formalization mechanism, which is extremely important for mining in the municipality of California. And I want to congratulate Calimineros, a Californian company made up of 160 miners, because they are taking steps never seen before towards a formal mining that complies with regulations and that respects the mining tradition of the region, ”said Santiago ngel, president of Minesa.

For his part, Jorge Maldonado, Manager of Calimineros pointed out “ this subcontract represents the effort we have been making to formalize it in the municipality of California. Among the members of this company there are mothers who are heads of families, victims of the armed conflict, the elderly, and male workers who see legal mining as an opportunity to guarantee economic sustenance, formal employment and quality of life for the families of the 160 members of Calimineros . "

 

About the Formalization Subcontract and the joint work with Calimineros:

  • In a participatory approach, Calimineros and Minesa jointly built the conditions that govern the development of formal mining in California, under the scheme of a mining formalization subcontract.
  • The subcontract includes a technical and administrative support that will be permanent to ensure that the project is developed in compliance with the laws, and especially, the environmental and health and safety regulations at work.
  • The mineral resources identified in the area of the subcontract guarantee that the mining activities will continue over time.
  • The Subcontract will directly benefit the families of its 160 partners , with direct and indirect jobs and the creation of the solidarity fund to carry out social responsibility initiatives and programs in the municipality.
  • Calimineros becomes a strategic ally for the development of the formal economy in the municipality of California, which already reports concrete actions with services that it now provides to the Soto Norte Project.

About Calimineros

The Calimineros company is the result of a participatory construction process to preserve the mining tradition, where the 160 mining partners recognize the advantages of being able to develop their work legally that will bring them better living conditions, economic and social development and that they decided to associate since December 2018, to take advantage of the formalization policy promoted by the National Government.

Minesa has been accompanying the institutional strengthening of Calimineros for two years in order to ensure compliance with high standards of environmental management, mining, industrial, social and administrative safety.

We are committed to Mining Well Done to

Soto Norte, Santander and Colombia.

 

This action goes hand in hand with the Corporate Social Responsibility programs of companies in the mining and energy sector in favor of development, caring for the environment and the growth of communities.