Located in the West of AntiochBuriticá has been a municipality recognized for its mining potential, especially in terms of gold.
There is the company’s mine Zijin-Continental Goldone of the largest in the country and has the capacity to extract about 2,500 tons of material per day and produce up to 240,000 ounces of gold per year, according to the multinational.
However, this has generated discomfort in the small and medium ancestral miners of the municipality, who increasingly feel more displaced and relegated from the activity that generates their livelihood.
In the face of widespread discontent, They went out to protest this Wednesday, February 9 to the urban center of the town, requesting that a table for agreement and dialogue with the institutions be set up.
“This, in order to generate agreements with the different entities of the State that allow the defense of the territory and the exercise of mining on a small and medium scale, with respect for the environment, health and life in conditions worthy of community of Buriticá”, say the united communities of peasants, miners, urban and rural Buriticá.
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The concentration began at 8 in the morning in the main park of the municipality and, until now, the demonstration has remained peaceful.
Among the requests contained in the statement of the affected communities are:
– The legalization of informal miners (area transfer).
– The defense of water resources, that is, an aqueduct in the urban area and in some rural communities.
– No more processes of domain extinction
– The construction of a non-private rural road and the right to health of the Higabra community, where the Multinational is based.
– Cessation of exploration by the Multinational Zijin Continental Gold in the Serranía del viento, “where the waters of the municipality are born”.
– Compensation to the community of the Los Puesta village for damages caused by the exercise of large-scale mining (the disappearance of the La Mina creek, and other damages).
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