With the formalization of Leonardo Méndez, of the Las Hebras gold mining project, located in the El Cerro village in Frontino, Antioquia, the government of President Iván Duque reached the number of 10,000 formalized miners throughout his administration, advancing in the 2022 goal of accompanying 27,000 miners and miners in their transition to legality, an unprecedented figure in the country.
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“The mining sector is essential for economic reactivation and for the achievement of the country’s development goals. The Ministry of Mines and Energy reiterates our commitment to legality, opening the way for more miners to join and be development engine for the territories and the country, while they begin their journey towards the consolidation of their projects as companies in the mining sector. When we do Legally Mining, We All Win “, indicated the Minister of Mines and Energy, Diego Mesa.
On the road to legalization and Mining, Colombia today presents 16,043 miners in transit to legality and 11,965 miners with a vocation to legality. In addition, in the case of AntioquiaAs of today, the department has more than 5,096 miners who have reached legality in the course of the Government, 2,143 miners in transit to legality and 2,677 miners with a vocation to legality.
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The regularization process of Las Hebras benefits more than 60 small miners in the region and their families, likewise, it is socially and environmentally sustainable, with a gold activity being carried out by small miners in the region, through a gravimetric benefit method and with total absence of mercury.
“I am very grateful to the National Government for this formalization policy and I want to tell all the miners who have not been formalized today that there are many guarantees so that they can do so and that this is a step that opens the door to the direct marketing of our product, in addition to giving us the guarantees to comply with all environmental regulations and take care of our environment “said Leonardo Méndez, a 10,000 miner formalized in the country.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Mines and Energy reiterated its commitment to legality and to providing tools to miners and miners to become entrepreneurs. The creation and start-up of the Mining Development Ecosystem is highlighted, platform in which the services that accompany the mining formalization process are materialized so that miners and miners are maintained and trained in a legal Mining.
WESTERN ANTIOQUEÑO MINING PACT
During the event, called, XXIII Meeting of Leaders of the West Antioquia, the National Government, the Ministry of Mines and Energy and the Secretariat of Antioquia signed the Pact of the West Antioquia, which represents an important commitment between the national and regional governments to promote a responsible mining activity that contributes to the vocations of this region and that results in benefits for citizens.
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This pact includes 8 commitments: promote the history and mining culture of western Antioquia, strengthen relations with interest groups, recognition of the region’s ancestral artisanal mining, promote mining activity, allied to the territories and with high standards, through the strengthening of mining exploration; participation in the subsistence mining traceability model; mining learning center at the service of western Antioquia; Accompaniment to the miners of western Antioquia through the integrated portfolio of services for the promotion of mining and application of legality criteria for the exercise of regularization of subsistence and small-scale mining within the regulatory framework.
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