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BACKGROUND:
xtractives, sub-development and mining in the pacific:
• Slavery and mining (Century: XVI to XIX): Enrichment of slaves and colons in the Valle
del Cauca.
• Multinationals of XX century : Chocó Pacific in the Chocó (San Juan y Atrato), Russians
in Cauca (Timbiquí and Rio Napi), EERESA (Carmen de Atrato), among others.
• Construction of Central Park and stadium of New York.
• Irrationality and effectuation on legal territories of collective ethnic groups and fever
of gold at the end of the XX century in the actuality
• Miners in San Juan: More than 200 bulldozers that circulate in the zone since
1985 to date, leaving its footprints of misery.
• More than 100afrocolombians vanished in the surroundings of Zaragoza in
Dagua River in Buenaventura between 2009 and 2010. and a cost estimated of
more than $40 thousand to begin with in the first phase of the environmental
restoration.
•Actual pressure of multinationals: concessions in process of mineralization
in eco-strategic areas and in collective territories:
Muriel Company, Anglo-American, Anglo Gold Ashanti, Condoto Platinum,
Cerromatoso S.A., Bocas del Mata, Project de Coco Hondo, among others
(More than 54Hect requested in Tadó, more than 100 request of foreign
companies.
• Uptake and distribution of royalties: inequality, corruption, inefficiency in
investments
• Socio economic impacts: money laundry, money gouge, displacement ,
disappearance of entire villages (La Trampa, El Guamo y El Tigre, La Florida (in
Condoto-Chocó), Calichón, Island(Unión Panamericana), Peradó (En Istmina,
among others).
• Environmental impacts: More than 50 thousand hect. In degradation in San Juan.
• Mining public policies, Mining codes and regulatory decree in agreement with the Act
Law 70 of 1993, environmental management of the region, socio cultural, and
biophysical pacific
Forum Objectives:
To create spaces for dialogue with the communities and institution that allows
us to have a comprehensive diagnosis of the mining problems in the Colombian
Pacific and to identify guidelines for influencing public policies for mining
development in the eco-region and to agree with the appropriate management
processes and appropriate supervision of mineral development meeting the
interest of social and environment sustainability, welfare and economic growth
in the territories that forms the Colombian Pacific.
Themes and Critical Urgent Aspects
1. Responsible Mining and Mining Community Enterprising:
•Green Gold Program
•Marketing of Precious Metals
•Integration Projects of Mining Areas (COOPSIPÍ, COCOMAN, San Joaquin,
etc.)
•Cooperatives and Mining Association
2. Governance about Mining in Chocó:
•Effects on legal territory
•Mining and Ethnic groups
•Conflicts, restrictions and limits of the code against mineral development
communities and ethnic groups
•Prior Consultation and Consent and Mining Concessions on collective
territories of ethnic groups (Black Communities)
•Impact and Benefit Agreements in partnerships Community mining and
mining companies
•Feasibility and Prospects for Mining Management in the Department of
Chocó
•Metallurgical Mining Centre of San Juan
•Mining District of San Juan
•Mining District of Atrato and Darién Chocoano
•Propaedeutic Cycle and Technical Training in Mining and SENA UTCH
3. Prospects and economic development of mining in the Chocó
Pacific:
•Capital risk and Foreign Investment on mining in the Chocó Department
•Control, orientation and distribution of royalties
•Mining Enterprising
•Mining Society of Chocó
•Economic Participation with mining community alliance and Mining
Companies
•Alternate and Economic Externalities post-mining
4. Mining-environmental order conflicts and positions
• forestall Reservoir of the Pacific and mining concession
•Protected Areas and Mining concessions
•Scheme and territorial order and mining non-cessions
•Ecosystems and mining benefits
5. Mining and environment restoration liabilities:
•Social and cultural impacts
•Ecosystems disturbance
•Environmental liabilities
•Comprehensive restoration in perspective of economic revitalization and
ecological restoration of areas disturbed by mining
•Mining Patrimony, Mining Road Etno-tourism
6. Social Mining and Human Development
•Participation Cooperation
•Child Labor
•Social Security for Artisanal mining in a small scale
•Basic Social Services and socio-community development in mining areas
•Mining formalization
•Women’s Role Mining
DESCRIPTION:
The event is a national and international scenes that calls for:
Institutional:
• MINMINAS
• MAVD
• MININTERIOR
• MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
• UPME
• INGEOMINAS
• CAR,S of the Region
• Fifth Committee of the Senate and House of Congress
• Mining Policy Advisory Council
•Governors
•Mayors
Private Sectors:
• Community Councils
• Indigenous Councils
• Environmental Organizations
• Mining Companies (Extracon, Muriel, Anglo Gold, Anglo American, etc.
• Support Network: ARM, COV)
echnological and Scientific Support and relevant experiences among others contexts:
NTONIO ROMERO (PhD. In Mining -UNALMED)
AUL ALZATE (PhD. In Mining Exploration Methods-UTCH)
ARIO CUJAR (Mining Expert- CODECHOCO)
ARLOS TIRSO MURILLO (Geologist)
RISTINA ECHAVARRÍA (Director of the Mundial Association for Responsible Mining -ARM)
USTAVO VILLAS BOAS (Director of CYTED XIII-Science and Technology for the Development of
eroAmerica-Infrastructure, Mining and Energy)
NRIQUE ORCHE (PhD. Mining Engineer-Vigo University)
SUSANNE FRIES (Mining Assessor and Sustainable Development in Latin America
MISEREOR, Germany).
MARCELO VEIGA (PhD. Metallurgical Engineer-University Of British Columbia-Vancouver,
BC, Canada)
LAURA BARRETO (Expert in negotiation in Mining Conflicts, Ethnic groups and Mining
Companies, Methodology: impacts and benefits)
JOSÉ MANUEL NICOLAU IBARRA (Email: [email protected])Profesor Titular de Ecología-Universidad de Alcalá
YAMILE SALINAS ABDALA (Expert on Consent and Consultation, Human RightsManagement of Mining Conflicts– INDEPAZ)
Troncos
en ríos
de oro
Trunks
in the Rivers
of Gold
“Somos
deon
troncos
de árboles
“We are tree trunk
brachesramas
that grow
mining rivers
gold. Each mine
que
sobre
lasThe
minas
has a tree and each
treecrecen
is rooted
in mine.
trunksde
of los
each tree are
ríosand
de descendant
oro. Cadaofmina
tiene un
árbol
brothers and sisters
the founders
of our
mines. We
y cada
árbol se arraiga
en una and
mina.
are the branches
and descendants.
We are resurgent
each of us
Los
troncos
dework
cada
belongs to a mine and
none
of us can
in árbol
a mine son
different than its
hermanos
hermanas1976).
fundadores de
trunk… y
(Friedemann
las descendencias y de nuestras
minas. Nosotros somos las ramas,
somos los descendientes. Somos los
renacientes. Cada uno de nosotros
pertenece a una mina y ninguno de
nosotros puede trabajar en una mina
distinta a la de su tronco...
(Friedemann 1976
METHODOLOGY:
• Previous Events and/or table themes:
• Meeting of mayor and Governors
• Community Council and Indigenous Council Workshops
• Agency table work
• Involvement with private companies
• Preparation of initial normative
•Preliminary Launch on November 2010 in Bogotá.
• Systematization documental and integral management of the event.
•The forum will be held on May 2011:During the three (3) days of the forum,
there will be panels and reflective and instructive presentations.
• For the blasting papers, invitations to experts will be national and international
relevant to the topics
• Key speakers will be identified for the support of region and communities
interests
•Exhibition spaces will be provided for the relevant institutional programs
There will be spaces for dialogue and consultation and community agency
ORGANIZERS:
Government of Chocó
Mayor Municipalities
Departmental Assembly of Chocó
CODECHOCO
Environmental Research Institute of the Pacific (IIAP)
Technological University of Chocó, “DIEGO LUIS CORDOBA”
SENA Sectional Chocó
Alumni Association of the Technological University of Chocó
Foundation Chocó Pacific
NGO’s
Leaders and managers of civil society.
LOCATION OF THE FORUM: Will be determined by impacts, support,
mobilization, accessibility, security and costs.
Optional Places:
• Quibdó
• Istmina
• Condoto
The tree icon of the world or life metaphorically connects the earth
and the sky in African and African American cultures (Friedman
l991c: 9). And among the miners of the coast also, appears in a
myth the flooding rivers where monstrous snakes symbolically
represents multinational dredges, dig up the roots of the tree
trunks and wipe out mines and the mining villages. Also, the
structure of the tree houses as an image of the world. It is a cosmic
pillar that the black pacific in the coast called “beam mother”, and
together with other materials will be distributed among its sons
when the parents house falls apart and the materials are
distributed (Friedman ibid.: 9,10).