GLAN has filed complaints against three international mining giants (BHP, Anglo American and Glencore) and Ireland’s state-owned energy provider, the ESB, over serious human rights abuses and devastating environmental pollution at the Cerrej n coal mine in Colombia.
Apr 16, 2021 The Cerrejon mine is a joint venture between Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Glencore located in Colombia's La Guajira Department. Until last year, the operation was the largest in the country with 2019 production at 26 Mt. However, production fell to 12 Mt in 2020 as the mine faced a variety of challenges: permitting delays, lawsuits and ...
Jul 27, 2018 Open letter to Cerrejon Coal. On 24 July, an open letter was sent by email to Lina Echeverri of Carbones del Cerrejon (Cerrejon Coal), the mining company operating the vast Cerrejon opencast coal mine in La Guajira, Colombia. It is owned by London-listed multinationals Anglo American, BHP and Glencore.
May 23, 2021 Cerrejon produced 12.4 million tonnes of coal in 2020, down almost 52% from 2019, and its exports fell to their lowest level in the past 18 years amid coronavirus restrictions and falling global ...
Nov 13, 2020 Colombian coal mine Cerrejon on Friday requested the Labor Ministry convene an arbitration tribunal to solve a dispute with its largest workers' union and lift a more than 70-day strike.
Dec 02, 2020 Colombia's coal mine Cerrejon restarts operation after 3-mth strike sxcoal.com General, International 2020-12-02 10:43:34 The second largest coal mine Cerrejon in Colombia has restored operation on December 1 as it reached an agreement with its largest labor union, putting an end to a 91-day strike, the longest in the country's coal mining history.
Jun 28, 2021 Glencore grabs Anglo American, BHP stakes in Cerrejon coal mine. Based on expected operating performance, current coal prices and assuming the closing happens as planned, Glencore said it’d likely pay only $230 million. This, it said, would make the estimated investment payback period less than two years from closing.
The broken coal is dozed into windrows, from which LeTourneau L-1100 and L-1200 wheel loaders equipped with 25m buckets load the coal into a fleet of 16, 154t-capacity rear dump trucks. These unload into one of three 300t-capacity hoppers, the run-of-mine coal then being crushed to –50mm in a two-stage process.
Jun 28, 2021 Glencore to acquire full ownership of Cerrej n coal mine in $588m deal. The Swiss miner says it will be a 'responsible steward' of the Colombian thermal coal mine after it buys out partnership interests from BHP and Anglo American. Glencore has agreed the acquisition of stakes in the Cerrejon coal mine held by joint venture partners BHP and ...
Feb 26, 2016 Cerrejon Coal is owned by London-listed mining companies Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Glencore. Yesterday, February 24, 2016, ESMAD (Mobile Anti-Disturbance Squadron), used excessive violence to expropriate and destroy the home of the Ustate Fuentes family in the community of Roche, an African-descendant community resisting involuntary ...
Jul 05, 2021 Glencore announced on June 28 that it has reached an agreement with its joint venture partners BHP and Anglo American to buy both of their 33.3 per cent shares in the Cerrejón thermal coal mine in La Guajira, Colombia, becoming sole owner of the mine. The company said it expects to pay US$230 million for the combined two-thirds of the asset.
Jan 19, 2021 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.
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Jun 29, 2021 Anglo, which previously told the market that it planned to exit thermal coal production by 2024, said yesterday that Glencore had agreed to acquire its 33.3 percent stake in Cerrej n for $294 ...
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Mar 16, 2020 Last year, coal prices fell to an average of $51.40 per tonne, down from $82.50 per tonne in the previous year, according to the Ministry of Mining and Energy. Cerrejon, located in La Guajira ...
Feb 24, 2021 Orkney’s Links With the Cerrejon Coal Mine. Cerrejon is the largest open coal mine in South America and has ‘seriously damaged the environment and health of the country’s largest indigenous community, and is making them more vulnerable to COVID-19’, states a report for the United Nations. The mine is owned in equal parts to subsidiaries ...
Oct 06, 2017 Yet again, there has been a brutal eviction carried out by the Colombian riot police for the benefit of mining company Cerrej n Coal, owned by London-listed multinationals Anglo American, BHP and Glencore – and it was carried out on 28 September, not long before BHP’s London AGM on 19 October. Our friend Emma Banks reports below.
Cerrejon coal mine uses large volumes of water from the Rancheria River as well as groundwater. To continue everyday operations at the coal mine approximately 2,700,000 liters of water per day is needed. Colombians have done little to cause this problem. The country’s per capita carbon footprint is under a fifth of the UK's and 11 times less ...
Jul 01, 2021 In the first quarter of 2021 alone, the company produced 12 million tonnes of thermal coal in Australia for export and 1.4Mt for domestic use. The other big thermal coal asset that is to be auctioned off is BHP's Mt Arthur open cut mine in NSW. BHP has declared it will be offloading it along with its share of the BHP Mitsui coal mines in ...
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Jul 25, 2013 Cerrej n mine: located in La Guajira, north-east Colombia, this open-pit coal mine generates 32 million tonnes of coal per year. 100% is exported.
Jul 21, 2020 At Cerrejon (Colombia), the largest open-pit coal mine in Latin America owned equally by BHP (Australia), Anglo American PLC (United Kingdom) and Glencore (Switzerland), the situation of the indigenous people is progressively worsening. Cerrejon Limited has informed the workers that “all the existing shifts will be unified into a single 7-day work, for three days […]
Jan 20, 2021 Cerrej n is an integrated mining and transportation complex in Colombia’s La Guajira province, in the northeastern part of the country, which includes an open-pit mine, a 150-kilometres railway line and a Caribbean port. In 2020, the mine produced 12.4 million tonnes of coal, almost 50% less than the output it registered the year before.
Apr 13, 2021 Worker perspectives from Cerrej n coal mine. 13 April, 2021 Last week, IndustriALL and the UK Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF) co-hosted a webinar examining how labour practices at the Colombian coal mine Cerrej n are affecting workers. The massive open-pit coal mine is jointly owned by mining multinationals Anglo American, BHP and ...
May 10, 2017 Cerrejon coal mine uses large volumes of water from the Rancheria River as well as groundwater. To continue everyday operations at the coal mine approximately 2,700,000 liters of water per day is needed. Colombians have done little to cause this problem. The country’s per capita carbon footprint is under a fifth of the UK's and 11 times less ...
Jul 09, 2021 For context, Cerrejon has c. 25Mt/year of capacity and is an integrated producer of high-quality thermal coal, although current mining rights are set to expire in 2034.
May 10, 2017 Cerrejon coal mine uses large volumes of water from the Rancheria River as well as groundwater. To continue everyday operations at the coal mine approximately …
Feb 28, 2020 Coal extraction is a lucrative industry in Colombia for the transnational corporations operating in the country. One of the most aggressive projects against local communities today is the Cerrejon coal mine in la Guajira, which has been a site for large-scale coal extraction since 1970. In 1976 the Colombian government signed a contract with Intercor (a subsidiary of Exxon) to explore, …
The El Cerrej n mine covers 69,000 hectares of the La Guaj ra peninsula in the northeast of Colombia, making it the largest open-cast coal mine in the world. Work on the mine began in 1980 under the management of the American oil company Exxon.