| inbluevt | Date: Monday, 2013/08/05, 9:51 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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CAJAMARCA, Colombia , Jul 29 2013 (IPS) - People in a farming town in central Colombia voted overwhelmingly against global corporation AngloGold Ashanti’s La Colosa gold mine.
In a popular vote on Sunday, whose results are binding, 99 percent of the 2,995 people in the municipality of Piedras who cast ballots – out of a total of 5,105 local people eligible to vote – said “no” to the South Africa-based gold mining company’s operations in the area.
Piedras, in the central province of Tolima, is 96 km west of La Colosa, the largest open pit gold mining project in the northern Andes, located in the district of Cajamarca, known as “Colombia’s breadbasket.
”Early last decade, AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) arrived in these hills of cloud forest and peasant fields.La Colosa, which is still in the feasibility study stage, is the third-largest mining project of AGA, which is the world’s third-largest gold producer, with 21 mining operations in 10 countries.
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AngloGold Ashanti Colombia billboard on the road from Ibagué, capital of Tolima, to Cajamarca: “Together we build the future: La Colosa means
progress for Colombia in harmony with the environment and hand in hand
with communities.” Credit: Constanza Vieira/IPS
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