Major mining areas in Colombia Gold La Colosa, Quinchía Silver Marmato Nickel Cerro Matoso Platinum Nóvita (TL) Emeralds Muzo, Chivor Coal Cerrejón, La Francia Salt Nemocón, Zipaquirá
This is a list of mining areas in Colombia.[1] The mineral industry of Colombia is large and diverse; the country occupies the first place in mining areas per surface area in the world. In pre-Columbian times, mining of gold, silver, copper, emeralds, salt, coal and other minerals was already widespread. Precious metals as gold,[2] and silver,[3] platinum, nickel and coltan are located in different areas throughout the country. Colombia is the first producer of emeralds and as per February 2017 occupied a ninth position in the production of coal, produced in almost all of the departments of the country.[4][5] Platinum is mostly found in the Western and Central Ranges of the Colombian Andes.[6] Copper said to have been produced during colonial and later times apparently came from small shoots which may have been worked primarily for their gold content.[7] The largest gold mine in Colombia is scheduled to start operations in Buriticá, Antioquia.[8][9]
Frequently, there are conflicts between the potential mining activities and the indigenous communities in the country, especially in the eastern, sparsely populated departments of Vichada, Guanía, Guaviare and Vaupés.[10][11]
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^"The Top 10 Coal Producers Worldwide". World Atlas. 21 February 2017. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
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Grupo de Catastro, y Registro Minero (2015), Reporte de anotaciones(PDF), ANM, pp. 1–6, retrieved 2017-04-07
Singewald, Quentin D (1949), "Mineral Resources of Colombia (other than Petroleum)" (PDF), Geological Survey Bulletin, 964-B: 1–204, retrieved 2018-05-30
Wacaster, Susan (2013), The Mineral Industry of Colombia, 2013 Minerals Yearbook, USGS, pp. 8.1–8.8
Gold
Arango Mendoza, Julián Andrés (2014), Proyecto de minería de oro La Colosa, Identificación ambiental de la zona de explotación y sus Impactos(PDF), Universidad La Javeriana, pp. 1–209, retrieved 2017-04-07
Enciso Moreno, Francy Paola (2011), Cartografía geológica y caracterización litológica del prospecto de oro Surbia, municipio de Quinchía (Risaralda), Universidad Industrial de Santander, pp. 1–99
Nickel
Forero Castañeda, Jorge Fernando; Londoño De Los Ríos, Jorge Hernán; Manrique Galvis, Juan José; Rojas Cruz, Fredy Wilman (2009), El Níckel en Colombia(PDF), UPME, pp. 1–45, retrieved 2017-06-08
Emeralds
Branquet, Yannick; Laumonier, Bernard; Cheilletz, Alain; Giuliani, Gaston (1999), "Emeralds in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia: Two tectonic settings for one mineralization" (PDF), Geology, 27 (7): 597–600, Bibcode:1999Geo....27..597B, doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0597:EITECO>2.3.CO;2, retrieved 2017-01-05
Giuliani, Gaston; Cheilletz, Alain; Arboleda, Carlos; Carrillo, Victor; Rueda, Félix; Baker, James H. (1995), "An evaporitic origin of the parent brines of Colombian emeralds: fluid inclusion and sulphur isotope evidence" (PDF), European Journal of Mineralogy, 7: 151–165, Bibcode:1995EJMin...7..151G, doi:10.1127/ejm/7/1/0151, retrieved 2017-01-05
Ortega Medina, Laura Milena (2007), Tipología y condiciones de formación de las manifestaciones del sector esmeraldífero "Peña Coscuez" (municipio San Pablo de Borbur, Boyacá) (MSc.)(PDF), Universidad Industrial de Santander, pp. 1–121, retrieved 2017-01-05
Puche Riart, Octavio (1996), La explotación de las esmeraldas de Muzo (Nueva Granada), en sus primeros tiempos – The exploitation of the emeralds of Muzo (New Kingdom of Granada), the first period(PDF), vol. 3, pp. 99–104, retrieved 2016-07-08
Tequia Porras, Humberto (2008), Asentamiento español y conflictos encomenderos en Muzo desde 1560 a 1617 – Spanish settlement and encomienda conflicts in Muzo from 1560 to 1617 (M.A.)(PDF) (M.A.) (in Spanish), Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, pp. 1–91, retrieved 2016-07-08
Uribe, Sylvano E (1960), "Las esmeraldas de Colombia" (PDF), Boletín de la Sociedad Geográfica de Colombia, 65 (in Spanish), XVIII: 1–8, retrieved 2016-07-08
Coal
Cely Sierra, Edy Santiago (2016), Caracterización geológica y fisicoquímica de los carbones explotados por la empresa Intercarbon Mining S.A.S., UPTC, pp. 1–104
Velandia Tarazona, Jenny Esmeralda; Rivera, María Esther; Delgado Rodríguez, Jesús Ramón; Monroy Gallo, Jorge Marco (2016), "Geology, litostratigraphy, determination of the quality and classification of carbones of Espino-Boyacá, Colombia", Boletín Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 40: 16–23
Coltan
Valdés Vera, Danny Alexandra; Bustamante Vargas, Natali (2010), Análisis descriptivo del coltán en Colombia y sus posibles mercados potenciales(PDF), Universidad del Rosario, pp. 1–35, retrieved 2017-04-07
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