Web resources for general country information
- BBC Country ProfilesFull profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions.
They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives. - Mineral Resources of Colombia (other than Petroleum)A historical report. The following report summarizes data acquired during 1942-45, in Colombia, by geologists and engineers of the Foreign Economic Administration, with whom the United States Geological Survey cooperated.
Legal resources
- Environmental Treaties and Resource IndicatorsWelcome to ENTRI, a fast, convenient, comprehensive online service for accessing multilateral environmental treaty data. Find status data for environmental treaties, treaty text and other related information easily. Construct custom tables by selecting countries and treaties of interest to you.
- An Introduction to Colombian Governmental Institutions and Primary Legal SourcesFrom NYC's Hauser Global Law School Program
- The Mining Law Review - Edition 5 MINING - COLOMBIABusiness-focused legal analysis and insight in the most significant jurisdictions worldwide
- The Mining Law ReviewChapter 6 - Colombia
- Big Industry Small Rules. The Mining Industry in Colombia.This paper describes the Colombian legal framework applicable for the mining industry and identifies the problematic issues within and then proposes some straightforward reforms.
- Local incentives and national tax evasion: The response of illegal mining to a tax reform in Colombia ∗In this paper we investigate how illegal mining, a very common phenomenon in Colombia, changed with a tax reform that reduced the share of revenue transferred back to mining municipalities
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Mining and the environment
- Mining as the “Locomotive” of the Colombian Economy: It’s Real CostResearch article from Journal of Pollution Effects & Control
- Protecting the Colombian Páramo from Eco Oro MiningCIEL works with the Committee for the Defense of Water and the Santurbán Páramo, a Colombian grassroots coalition, SOMO and MiningWatch Canada to protect the páramo and question the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) investment in a harmful mining project
Maps and other unique resources
- Mining maps of Frontino Gold Mines Ltd., Silencio Mine.Can be checked out from Arthur Lakes Library
- A study of the gold & silver mines of ColombiaA study of the gold & silver mines of Colombia from 1886. Available in the Arthur Lakes Library' Mining History Archive.
- Murindo gold rich porphyry copper prospect, Western Cordillera, Northwest Columbia.Available in the Arthur Lakes Library's Mining History Archive.
- Estudio sobre las minas de oro y plata de ColombiaStudy (in Spanish) on the gold and silver mines of Colombia from 1888.
- Étude sur les mines d'or et d'argent de la ColombieStudy (in French) on the gold and silver mines of Colombia from 1908.