GRAN COLOMBIA GOLD REMAINS COMMITTED TO THE ERADICATION OF MERCURY IN INFORMAL MINING, AFTER ONE YEAR OF THE UNION OF COLOMBIA TO THE MINAMATA CONVENTION

GRAN COLOMBIA GOLD REMAINS COMMITTED TO THE ERADICATION OF MERCURY IN INFORMAL MINING, AFTER ONE YEAR OF THE UNION OF COLOMBIA TO THE MINAMATA CONVENTION

Colombia celebrates one year since the signing of the Minamata Convention where it joined more than 130 countries with the objective of monitoring the life cycle of mercury, having best practices, restricting initial access, controlling its circulation and developing knowledge and technical capabilities to meet these goals and contribute to reducing the health and environmental risks to which people are exposed around the world.

Gran Colombia Gold works hand in hand with these alliances that seek to protect the health of communities and protect the environment from the adverse effects of mercury and through its Small Mining Productive Chain Initiative it has formalized more than 2,500 miners organized in 48 mining units in the municipalities of Segovia and Remedios and with this it has achieved that more than 137 tons of mercury are eradicated in the region in the last 7 years.

Exposure to mercury represents a global problem for health and the environment and this is why Gran Colombia Gold continues to work to eradicate this metal from informal mining practices and ensure compliance to make the transition to a sustainable economy.

“With formalization we are contributing to the elimination of mercury. Gran Colombia Gold ratifies its commitment to the well-being of the communities and the environment and at the same time provides the respective support to all those mines that want to comply with the law and thus eradicate this metal in our country” José Ignacio Noguera Gómez, Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Sustainability.