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Monty Rakusen/Cultura via Getty Images. Glencore (OTCPK:GLCNF, OTCPK:GLNCY) agrees to acquire BHP and Anglo American's (OTCQX:AAUKF) stakes in the Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia for $588M, giving ...
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Cerrejón, a Glencore Company, is one of the largest open-pit coal-export mining operations in the world. The company is an important actor in the economy of Colombia and of La Guajira, the region where our production activity takes place. We have an integrated extraction, rail transport, and export operation from Puerto Bolívar. Vision
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Situated in the La Guajira province of Colombia, Cerrejón is said to be one of the world's largest open-cut export energy coal mines. It has an integrated extraction, rail transport, and export operation from Puerto Bolívar. Cerrejón is expected to hold the potential to produce around 25 million tonnes of coal per annum.
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Sep 2, 2022September 1 - Wayuú and Afro-descendant communities affected by the Cerrejón Limited open-pit coal mine in Colombia are blocking the southern part of the mining operation in La Guajira due to the mining company not complying with agreements made with affected communities.
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BOGOTA: Nearly week-long road blockades have cut 70 per cent of output from Colombia's Cerrejon coal mine, the largest in Latin America, the company owned by Glencore Plc said on Tuesday, asking the government to intercede with protesters. Blockades on roads and rail lines around the mine are not uncommon.
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Wayuú and Afro-descendant communities, resettled and historically affected by the Cerrejón Limited open-pit coal mine, decided to block the southern part of the mining operation in La Guajira due to the non-compliance of Cerrejón Limited, today, September 1, 2022.
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Colombia: Coal mine Cerrejón informs of the launching of an agreement with the Wayuu Indigenous community Dialogue table between Cerrejón and the community of Provincial. (Image courtesy of Cerrejón). "Cerrejón, Colombian Indigenous community launch agreement over environmental concerns", 18 March 2021
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If upheld the complaints filed in Australia, Switzerland and the UK would require joint-owners BHP, Glencore and Anglo American to close down the Cerrejón mine and compensate the affected communities for the harms it has caused. If upheld the separate complaint in Ireland against Dublin-based CMC would require it to stop selling Cerrejón coal.
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Colombia: Comunidades étnicas bloquean las vías de acceso a Cerrejón en defensa de su derecho al agua Tipo de contenido: Artículo Fecha: 8 Sep 2022; Colombia: Comunidades negras del Consejo Comunitario de Cañaverales en alerta por nuevo proyecto de carbón que pone en riesgo su territorio ancestral Tipo de contenido: Artículo Fecha:
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Glencore acquires Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia The Cerrejón mine acquisition complies with Glencore's climate change strategy to reduce total emissions by 15% by 2026. Glencore has completed the acquisition of the 66.6% stake in the Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia from joint venture (JV) partners BHP and Anglo American.
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The Cerrejón coal mine, owned by the U.K.-Swiss-Australian conglomerate of BHP, Glencore and Anglo-American broke ground in La Guajira in the 1980s and has since become the world's 10th largest.
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Cerrejon is one of the largest coal mines in the world, with 150 kilometres of railway and port operations moving 550 million tonnes of coal annually. But Dr O'Cuinn said any action against the three big miners depended on governments enforcing the OECD guidelines.
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One of the largest coal mines in Colombia, Cerrejon currently employs 10,000 people, of which over 99% are Colombian nationals. According to the press release, the company will be re-hiring in May with those who lose their jobs given first priority. inflation-based increases for the following two years. MORE Cerrejon coal miners sign agreement ...
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in News. Glencore has signed a $588m agreement to acquire full ownership of the Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia from joint venture partners BHP and Anglo American. The firm will purchase the remaining stake in the venture it does not already own by acquiring the respective 33.3% stakes of BHP and Anglo American, representing its full exit from ...
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On 1 September demonstrators from several communities harmed by Glecore's Cerrejón coal mine began a peaceful blockade of the mine's southern entrance. Their demand was to negotiate with delegates from government institutions and from Glencore for a solution to unfulfilled promises to displaced communities.
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Colombia's Cerrejon coal mine partially closed due to dust July 15, 2014, 2:36 PM CARACAS (Reuters) - Colombia coal producer Cerrejon has slowed operations in the southern zone of its mine in order...
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BOGOTA: Nearly week-long road blockades have cut 70 per cent of output from Colombia 's Cerrejon coal mine, the largest in Latin America, the company owned by Glencore Plc said on Tuesday, asking the government to intercede with protesters. Blockades on roads and rail lines around the mine are not uncommon.
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By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) - A stretch of the railway belonging to Colombia's biggest coal producer, Cerrejon, was bombed late on Tuesday, the second such attack in 10 days but one that would not have any immediate impact on exports, the company said in a statement. Military sources said this attack, like the previous one, was the work of the leftist FARC rebels.
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Sep 6, 202212:49, GLEN +3.26%, Nearly week-long road blockades have cut 70% of output from Colombia's Cerrejon coal mine, the largest in Latin America, the company owned by Glencore Plc GLEN said on Tuesday, asking the government to intercede with protesters. Blockades on roads and rail lines around the mine are not uncommon.
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The article describes Colombia's El Cerrejon North Block coal project, a $3.2 billion undertaking that will establish the largest coal mine in South America and one of the biggest surface mines in the world. The first shipments from Colombia's new mine have begun, and it is projected that by 1989 the surface mine will invade the export market ...
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The Cerrejón thermal coal mine in La Guajira is the largest in Latin America and one of the world's biggest open-pit coal export mining operations. Approximately 80,000 tonnes of coal per day is transported 150km via rail to Puerta Bolívar. During 2020 and 2021, the vast majority of Colombia's coal exports went to the Middle East. Coal ...
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Feb 28, 2022Colombian coal miner Cerrejon's production jumped 89% last year to 23.4 million tonnes, the company said in a statement on Monday, recovering from the hit from a three-month strike and the ...
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The Cerrejón mine is a large open-pit coal mine located in the southeast department of La Guajira, Colombia owned by the Cerrejón Coal Company, a subsidiary of BHP (Australia), Anglo American (United Kingdom) and Glencore (Switzerland). On February 5, Colombia Reports reported that Glencore plans to return its title for the Cerrejón mine, but maintain
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The indigenous Wayuu communities of Colombia have launched an urgent appeal for the UN Human Rights Council to intervene in an alleged human rights crisis caused by operations of the Cerrejon coal mine which is backed by Australian mining giant BHP. The mine reportedly uses 24 million litres of water per day, and operations have contaminated the Rancheria River which is the main source of ...
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BOGOTA, March 30 (Reuters) - The biggest union at the Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia pulled back from launching a previously approved strike over the weekend and withdrew its demands regarding pay...
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Feb 28, 2022BOGOTA, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Colombian coal miner Cerrejon's production jumped 89% last year to 23.4 million tonnes, the company said in a statement on Monday, recovering from the hit from a three-month strike and the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
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Likewise, our operation integrates the coal crushing and washing plants and silos. We have a specialized laboratory that allows us to exercise operational control over the quality of the coal transported by our trains and ensure compliance with the requirements of our customers. 6 pits in operation +4.600 ha of land rehabilitated +430 vehicles
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The Cerrejón mine Communities living in La Guajira in Colombia face forced displacement and environmental destruction because of the operation of the Cerrejón mine. The mine is owned by Anglo America, BHP, and Glencore. Irish energy company ESB, like other energy providers, has bought millions of tonnes of coal from Cerrejón. The OECD Guidelines
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Cerrejon is a large open-pit coal mine in Colombia. It is located in the southeast of the department of La Guajira, close to the border with Venezuela. At Cerrejon, low-ash, low-sulfur bituminous coal from the Cerrejon Formation is excavated. In 2020, the company's production was 12.4 million tonnes, a drop of 52% compared to 2019's level.
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Coal reserves at Cerrejon The Cerrejon coal mine was estimated to hold 337.9Mt of proven and probable coal reserves grading 6040 kcal/kg as of December 2019. The total measured and indicated resources at the mine was estimated to be 4156.3Mt. Mining and coal handling The Cerrejon coal mine has a total of 6 open-pits in operation.
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Cerrejón es un complejo de minería y transporte integrado en La Guajira, departamento ubicado en el extremo norte de Colombia. Abarca una mina a cielo abierto de carbón térmico que produce más de 32 millones de toneladas al año, un ferrocarril de 150 km de largo y un puerto marítimo de cargue directo capaz de recibir buques de hasta 180.000 toneladas de capacidad.
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Business Editor. Christian Aid has criticised the ESB for restarting the importation of coal from a controversial mine in Colombia for use in fuelling the Moneypoint power station. The Cerrejón ...
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Chancleta is an Afro-descendant community in La Guajira, Colombia that was forced to relocate when the Cerrejón mine, owned by multinational giants BHP, Anglo American and Glencore, expanded the the coal mine. Members of the community have made a video to explain to the world how their rights are being violated, the lack of respect that ...
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Cerrejón is a large open-pit coal mine in Northern Colombia owned by Glencore. At Cerrejón, low-ash, low-sulphur bituminous coal from the Cerrejón Formation is excavated. At over 690 square kilometres (270 sq mi) the mine is one of the largest of its type, the largest in Latin America and the tenth biggest in the world.
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Similarly, Cerrejón denounced that at the Amtur facilities in Hatonuevo They intimidated the workers of the transport company, and placed a padlock at the entrance of the place preventing the entry and exit of the buses.. For his part, the director of the National Union of Coal Industry Workers (Sintracarbón), Igor Díaz, announced that The union forcefully rejects the burning of the buses ...
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Glencore also holds a one-third stake in Cerrejón, an independently managed coal joint venture with Anglo American and BHP Billiton. Glencore' chief executive officer, Ivan Glasenberg, accompanied the visitors, along with members of the senior management teams at Glencore, Prodeco and Cerrejón.
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El Universal had previously reported: "Cerrejón asked the relevant authorities for the necessary actions 'to be able to recover the normality of our operation'." El Cerrejon. Deutsche Welle has reported: "El Cerrejon is the biggest open-cast coal mine in Latin America, and one of the biggest in the world. It sprawls across more than ...
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Cerrejón is one of the largest open-pit mines in the world, covering about 69,000 hectares in the La Guajira region of Colombia. GLAN, which is being supported by Christian Aid Ireland and CAJAR, a...
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The Cerrejón Formation is a geologic formation in Colombia dating back to the Middle-Late Paleocene.It is found in the El Cerrejón sub-basin of the Cesar-Ranchería Basin of La Guajira and Cesar.The formation consists of bituminous coal fields that are an important economic resource. Coal from the Cerrejón Formation is mined extensively from the Cerrejón open-pit coal mine, one of the ...
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