SWAMP PALAGUA. CRUDE TERROR

The Swamp Palagua is located in Puerto Boyaca, is considered the second most important department after Tota lake. And unfortunately I call the attention of several black gold lovers industries, among those companies identified by the villagers this Ecopetrol, Texas Petroleum Company, The Temporary Union IJP, Mansarovar Energy. The ecosystem of the Cienaga de Palagua is weak, and is in RED ALERT!
Breathing and eating oil are the fish in the Cienaga, biodiversity is threatened by more than 400 hectares by hydrocarbon activity because once the oil leaking from the pipes pollutes water and land, and although see a green space, it is not possible to plant there because when a hole opens you can see the oil.
The biologist Hugo Diaz, regional coordinator of protected areas Corpoboyacá, said he has advanced the process of delimitation of the Cienaga de Palagua.

"With the peak of certain flood will begin a process of conservation of the round and zoning process, so that those machines that are located very close to the morass defined what their management because they can not be in the mire of Palagua "says biologist Hugo Diaz.


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http://www.noticiascaracol.com/colombia/explotacion-petrolera-tiene-en-jaque-la-fauna-y-flora-de-cienaga-de-palagua
http://www.vanguardia.com/economia/local/356137-palagua-la-cienaga-que-se-la-traga-el-petroleo

FLOORS, ANOTHER VICTIM.

Colombia has several types of soils, including clayey, sandy and stony loas are.

There are several types of soils including clay are, rocky, chalky, gumífero, among others. Water sources are not the only ones affected by mining both legal and illegal, so is the health of people and soil. The soil is contaminated with mercury and other substances used in mining. Although this is not the only cause, also the misuse of fertilizers in agriculture. Thanks to a study by the Codazzi (IGAC), 28.7% of Colombian soil suffers from inappropriate use by farmers. 16.6% are overused soils for activities that are not intended, and 13.9% suffer from subutulización (underused land to his true vocation).

According to the IGAC 85% of the land in the country he has presented several cases of rash, and this is a serious problem since it causes the loss of biodiversity, facilitates the occurrence of landslides and avalanches, among other things can happen.

If you would like to make a study of soils, it must take into account the climate in this thereby be better understood from the ground, and with it their physical and chemical properties.

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http://www.eltiempo.com/estilo-de-vida/ciencia/deterioro-del-suelo-en-colombia-/15313755 http://www.vanguardia.com/economia/nacional/315793-el-40-por-ciento-del-suelo-colombiano-presenta-erosion

NATIONAL AGENCY OF MINING. (ANM)

In Colombia exists some entities in charge of giving licenses to mining activity carried out in a certain place, and those same control movement or activity generated in places. This entity should be aware of how many titles are awarded and take control of it.

The National Mining Agency (ANM) is a Colombian government agency in charge of a process of overseeing the implementation of a new system for granting concessions through a bidding process, monitor the concessionaires through contracts with privadosy auditors encourage reform mining code. This agency has several branches spread across the country, these headquarters are in Bogota, Medellin, Cali, Ibague, Bucaramanga, Valledupar, Cúcuta, Nobsa, Cartagena, Pasto, Quibdo and Manizales.

"Bogotá DC, February 15, 2016. The Ministry of Mines and Energy and the National Mining Agency announced production increases registered in 2015 of gold, iron and emeralds, minerals that keep stable growth and contributing to the development of the sector and regions. gold production for the year came to 1,903,386 million troy ounces, equivalent to an increase of 3.84% over 2014, which was 1,833,066. on the other hand, production emerald rebounded by 15% from 1,551,549 to 1,782,058 carats in 2015. " according to the website of the ANM.

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From: http://www.anm.gov.co/?q=anm_revela_cifras_oficiales_de_produccion_en_2015_

CHEMICAL THAT KILLS. MERCURY

WHAT IS MERCURY?

Mercury is one of the most notorious heavy metals. And it is not for less. All investigations warn that is a threat to human health and wildlife. It is a heavy silver metal at room temperature is an odorless liquid. It is not a good conductor of heat compared with other metals but it is a good conductor of electricity. Mercury is commonly found as its sulfide HgS, often as cinnabar red and less abundant as cinnabar black metal.

WHAT IT'S USED?

It has several industrial uses such as thermometers, batteries, barometers among others. But mercury is also used in mines for the purpose of extracting gold and silver soil; this activity comes to affect on the environment and health. Most of the mercury released from human activities is released into air, through fossil, mining, smelting and solid waste combustion. Some forms of human activity release mercury directly into soil or water, for example fertilizer application in agriculture and industrial wastewater discharges. All mercury that is released to the environment will eventually end up in soils or surface waters.

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From:https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurio_(elemento)

                 http://www.lenntech.es/periodica/elementos/hg.htm

                 http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs361/es/

MINNIG BANNED IN MOORS.

Mining can be sustainable in social and environmental terms in many places (and can be harmful) but not at the moors. It is a large water ecosystem value on biodiversity and climate regulation, they are very fragile and the impacts caused by this activity are irreversible. says "Santiago Madriñan de la Torre"

The Constitutional Court censured the possibility that contained the development plan to do some mining activities in the area of the moor. The argument of environmentalists who strongly oppose the project was that the mine is located in a wasteland. They note that the moors are thermal floors that are located between 3000 and 4700 meters and stress that are a world rarity, an important source of water.

A big features the moor is a tropical mountain ecosystem that develops over the forest area and has its limit in perpetual snow. Some studies suggest that the current composition of the moor can influence the occupation and human activities.

Besides the moors they are home to numerous indigenous and peasant communities of ancestral heritage, and who are key to the conservation of these territories.

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http://www1.upme.gov.co/sala-de-prensa/noticias/explotacion-minera-esta-totalmente-prohibida-en-los-paramos#sthash.BqNlevYE.dpuf

 http://www.paramo.org/content/%C2%BFqu%C3%A9-son-los-p%C3%A1ramos

BRIGADE AGAINST ILEGAL MINING.

Brigade Against Illegal Mining (BRCMI) was created in October 2015 by Colonel Federico Mejia, in order to dismantle all these criminal gangs that mining without due permission from the mining authority and noncompliant code miner; making ecosystems of Colombia are affected along with the species that live here, however, it is not always easy to find out where this activity is carried out, but leave very large tracks throughout the country as the damage caused to the rivers of 21 departments of Colombia (Cauca, Antioquia, Choco Santanderes, Amazonas, Guainía, Putumayo, Valle, Vichada, Cundinamarca, Sucre, Boyaca, Vaupes, Bolivar, Magdalena, Cesar, Cordoba, Risaralda, Caldas and Caquetá.)

Environmental impact:

According to conservative estimates, illegal gold mining in Colombia moves around 45,000 million pesos per month.

The prosecution today takes 512 processes for illegal gold mining, coal 124, 200 quarries, 13 coltan, one mercury, another for uranium, and several, 123 materials.

Such is the profit generated in some regions, within months, have appeared abnormal floating population settlements near municipal seats, as occurred in the area between Timbiquí and López de Micay (Cauca).

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From: http://www.eltiempo.com/politica/justicia/mineria-ilegal-destruye-los-rios-de-21-departamentos-de-colombia/15675184 

http://www.semana.com/nacion/articulo/la-rentabilidad-de-la-mineria-ilegal-en-colombia/397956-3

MINING AUTHORITY

The Mining Code regulates relations between agencies and state entities and individuals with each other on prospecting, exploration, exploitation, processing, transportation, utilization and marketing of non-renewable resources found in the soil or subsoil and are property of the nation or private.

The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) issued standards for mining generally governing the operation of mining activities. The MME points in the code of mines in areas that can not be carried out mining activities in accordance with Decree 2811/1974. These areas make exclusive use of agriculture, ecological reserves and submit incompatibility for the development of the activity.

 In addition to that activity is carried out by the mayor of the place that work should review the permit / title of the miners, the mayor also has the duty to verify that the place is the one that appears on the permit / title and equal so that the owner of the property agreed, otherwise the permit should be canceled / title. 

There are more than 1000 proposals for mining in a particular area but only 100 become accepted, being only between 70 and 50 of them are implemented. The MME must be aware of all titles giving and are complying with the rules.

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From: http://www.elcolombiano.com/historico/a_destrabar_la_autoridad_minera-IFEC_311977

                    https://www.minminas.gov.co/ 

SWEET JUSTICE.

Slowly but comes ... Six people were captured by illegal mining contaminating water sources that supply the municipality of Ataco in the department of Tolima, whom contaminated with mercury says the commander of Task Force Zeus, General Andres Gonzales .
the seizure of pumps, compressors, mesh and PVC pipes was achieved.
The captured will be prosecuted for the illegal exploitation of natural resources.
http://www.wradio.com.co/noticias/regionales/capturadas-seis-personas-por-mineria-ilegal-en-tolima/20160129/nota/3049009.aspx

They were captured 22 people doing illegal mining in Ayapel, Cordoba, two search operations and joint control areas that had National Army troops and supported by the police. According to the information provided, it is said that a backhoe, suction dredger, a power plant, a motor pump and other materials for resource exploitation were seized.
http://www.eluniversal.com.co/sucesos/capturadas-22-personas-por-explotacion-ilicita-de-minas-217120

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FRIST RIVER DISAPPEARS IN COLOMBIA.

RED ALERT! ... And our fears become reality first was contamination in the rivers to be disappearing hectares of forests and animal species living in Colombia, and now the first river disappears completely, due to illegal mining.

The Sambingo river is part of the most important watershed of the Cauca Pacific; is taken by Army photo was taken on 22 January amid an operation against illegal mining that was exercising in Cauca, where five backhoes and a sorting seized along with other items used in this illegal operation that would be worth 2.400 billion pesos. It can also be seen in the image that his disappearance was not only because of El Niño but illegal activity pursued there.

Recover this ecosystem could take a little more than 100 years and 100,000 million pesos so you can return to what it was.

Will he return the Simbingo to be like the mighty tributary that was when they return rains ?, will not make it just needs our help and value to help you back to what it was before, avoid throwing waste into the river and pulling out the miners illegal road.

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From: http://www.semana.com/nacion/articulo/fenomeno-de-el-nino-se-seca-el-primer-rio-en-colombia/458485

ILEGAL MINING.

Putumayo has an area of 24,885 square kilometers. In the municipalities of Orito and Villagarzón there are significant deposits of oil that incorporate large revenues to the economy of the department; There are also gold mining in the Colombian Massif, part of which is extracted illegally as a part in the financing of illegal armed groups like the FARC, threatening the biodiversity of the department 14. Oil extraction represents almost 100 % of the structure of the mining sector.

The damage this illegal activity is very large and cause almost irreparable making the world go slowly dying, removing water and animals that help better ecosystem and a better life for us.

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from: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putumayo_(Colombia)
            http://www.eltiempo.com/noticias/putumayo

LAW... MINING CODE..

There's a mining code with rules or laws for mining where it is said to do when someone wants to explore a land and extract something from it. However there is also illegal mining where all they want is to exploit the land and pollute the environment in with it.

Mining Code: This Code aims of public interest to promote technical exploration and exploitation of mineral resources of state and private property; stimulate these activities in order to meet the requirements of internal and external demand for them since their use is done in harmony with the principles and rules of rational exploitation of non-renewable natural resources and the environment, within a comprehensive concept sustainable development and economic and social empowerment of the country. this code has eleven to twelve titles. (They will talk on the blog)

What about illegal mining?

That is done without government permission, which are the most damaging to the environment and unsafe mines; why there is gold fever that exists in Colombia. In 2010, Colombia produced 1.6 million troy ounces of gold, worth about US $ 2,400 million. It is expected that in 2012 the figure will double, according to Ingeominas, the state entity that fixed mining policies.

The government believes that 50% of 6,000 coal mines and gold that exist are illegal. This was revealed earlier this year the Minister of Mines and Energy, Carlos shot. Some time ago, President Juan Manuel Santos announced that the persecution of illegal mining is a priority for the authorities.

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From: http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2011/03/110310_colombia_mineria_ilegal_az.shtml

                  http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/40000-44999/43797/texact.htm#1

WHAT IS MINING?

What´s mining?

It is the obtention of minerals and other materials from the earth´s crust. The diversity of minerals that are found  throughout the country opens the possibility of exploitation in many places giving direct (35%) and indirectly (45%) many people work. Also as jobs are generated myths about mining are also generated for example "stay Colombia turned into a black hole" and do not know is that 1000 projects 100 only accepted and few are carried out, and only 1.1% is covered by mining. And when exporting minerals, the country receives foreign currencies that are useful for our development and generates significant foreign exchange earnings to the national economy.

Which makes mining in Colombia?

Mining in Colombia is one of the main economic engines of the country. In recent years, Colombia has intensified its mining due to the use of new technologies (30 years ago would not have imagined the extraction of oil and coal as it is now) and the arrival of foreign investors to the country. There are some myths that foreign companies say they take everything and leave nothing for national, but they do not know is that these foreign companies is that they only have 1028 titles unlike national with 7532.

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From: http://es.slideshare.net/josefernandogonzalezante/minera-en-colombia-10113142 
              https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miner%C3%ADa_en_Colombia
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