“Here, they tell us to help protect our work and our land, and that
once the multinational corporations arrive, we won’t have anything to do
because we aren’t trained like the outsiders are,” he said.
Sixty-one
percent of miners in Colombia have only a primary education; 23% have a
high school education and 6% have some form of higher education,
according to the Ministry of Mines and Energy.
Between August
2010 and the first five months of 2014, the National Unit against
Illegal Mining of the National Police’s Carabineros Directorate
intervened in about 3,000 illegal mines, according to Col. Wilson
Chaparro of the National Police.
Four hundred-fifty operations
resulted in the suspension or closure of 1,181 of these mines. Since
2010, 5,500 suspects involved in criminal mining have been arrested.
The
authorities also have seized 111 kilograms of gold and 980 kilograms of
mercury – a highly toxic element used in the gold-separating process.
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