Mike's Bogota Blog

Coal producers know that their dirty fuel's days are numbered. If concerns about global warming - burning coal pumps more carbon ...

Location of La Colosa mine in Tolima department. When residents of Cajamarca, Tolima voted recently in a non-binding referendum agai...

Guaqueros , or fortune hunters, outside the Puerto Arturo mine. (Photo: Semana.com ) In an industry plagued by illegality, unsafe ...

Taking a stand. Emerald dealers march yesterday on Plaza Rosario. Emerald traders examine loose emeralds  on the sidewalk by Carre...

La Guajira residents protest against a proposed rerouting of the Rancheria River. We know that Colombia has the world's longest...

An anti-mining mural by Toxicomano on 26th Street in Bogotá. The text says 'Water is worth more than gold.'  The misbehavior...

Colombia exports about 100 tons of tungsten per year. But, strangely, the country has only one legal tungsten mine - and it isn't op...

Mining, in all its beauty. President Santos often calls the mining sector one of Colombia's economic 'locomotives.' But...

Machinery at work at the Cerro Matoso nickel ore mine. (Photo: W Radio ) Veteran journalist Juan Gossain has this grim full-page st...

One of the most common mistakes committed by anglophiles unfamiliar with the nation at the northern end of South America is to spell ...

Colombian biodiversity - in good hands? After eight years, Colombia, one of the world's most biodiverse nations, finally has a...