There’s only law and environmental standards for barequeros and none for big business” say officials of the Municipality of El Bagre. Although they admit that few craft miners reforest. They denounce discriminatory treatment in the payment of royalties, since ‘they (Mineros) pay only 0.4% and informal pays 4%’.
Today the sector is experiencing a boom due to the high price of an Troy ounce flirts with US$16,000, which literate or illiterate, formal or craft craft, follow daily in the news. ‘It is high and there are so many dredges, about 300 only in Guarumo’, admits a buyer in the Cáceres district, on the banks of the Cauca who prefers to remain anonymous. In addition to buying gold, he sells mercury at CoP$12,000 (US$7) per 25 grams bag, although prohibited because of the harm caused to the rivers, as well as spare parts for dredgers.
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