Colombia: UN Study Charts Extent of Unregulated Gold Mining in Colombia, Links to Organized Crime

Aug 10, 2016 | UN
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An estimated 60 per cent of Colombia’s alluvial gold exploitation – through mining streams or riverbeds, often dredged with heavy machinery – is not established within existing normative frameworks and in many cases finances and strengthens organized criminal groups, according to a joint United Nations and Colombian Government study.