La legalización de la minería a pequeña escala en Colombia

Urán, Alexandra

doi:10.17141/letrasverdes.14.2013.1004

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“…It is a phenomenon which emerges from the entanglement of people and materials. asGM in Colombia has been described as small-scale, nomadic, and informal, often with limited capital investments, (Cordy et al 2013;Cordy et al 2011;Echavarria 2014;García et al 2015;Urán 2013). As these qualities are all tied up with the presence of mercury, it is also possible to state that asGM in Colombia is an emergent phenomenon of an entanglement of mercury with a range of human and nonhuman actors, or that mercury is coconstitutive of particular modes of mining.…”

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“…In some countries such as Mongolia, asGM is essentially formalised (sdC 2016). Urán (2013) provides a useful proposed typology of a range of mining types under the asGM label within Colombia, and Tubb (2015) offers a strong anthropological description of relations between groups of miners of different scales in Colombia. This is made possible by thinking beyond asGM as a unified category.…”

Section: Mercury Pollution: a Global Environmental Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An Ethnography of Entanglements: Mercury’s Presence and Absence in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Antioquia, Colombia

Robertson

Farrelly

2018

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SiteS is licensed CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise specified. sites: new series · vol 15 no 1 · 2018 Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/sites-id349 -article -AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF ENTANGLEMENTS: MerCurY's PresenCe and aBsenCe in artisanal and sMall-sCale Gold MininG in antioquia, ColoMBia Thomas Robertson1 & Trisia Farrelly2 aBstraCt This paper describes a 'follow the thing' methodology as applied to an ethnography of entanglements. This methodology allowed for a materially and politically nuanced understanding of Antioquia, Colombia's response to mercury pollution. This pollution primarily originates from the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) industry where mercury is employed in the gold extraction process. In following the mercury, the authors experiment with an ethnography of entanglements. The paper discusses how they address the current lacunae in mining ethnographies by focussing on mining as 'practice', going past the provision of technical descriptions of mining and ethnographic descriptions of miners to an ethnography of mining. This ethnographic approach considers the politics of materiality and addresses a lack of attention to the impacts of the presence and absence of materials on social life. Various mining practices in Antioquia illuminate how entanglements between miners and mercury have been co-constitutive of particular modes of ASGM. The paper will also provide examples of 'negative mercury entanglements' where efforts have been made to extricate mercury from mining practices. Rather than creating a vacuum, these mercury absences have been generative of new contested symbolic and material arrangements including entrepreneurial and 'responsible' mining, debates over miners' rights, and the creation of new political relationships between ASGM and large-scale mining companies.

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Section: Mercury Pollution: a Global Environmental Problemmentioning

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An Ethnography of Entanglements: Mercury’s Presence and Absence in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Antioquia, Colombia

Robertson

Farrelly

2018

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“…• Indicadores socioeconómicos Urán (2013) en el ámbito de la legalización de la minería a pequeña escala, establece variables para medir:…”

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Desarrollo sostenible en la actividad minera: un estudio de caso en la provincia de Uige, Angola

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Peña²

2021

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El desarrollo sostenible de la industria minera extractiva constituye una necesidad para el desarrollo de las zonas mineras en la provincia de Uige, Angola. Esta investigación tiene el objetivo de elaborar un sistema de indicadores de sostenibilidad capaz de medir y contribuir en el desarrollo minero sostenible en la explotación de materiales para la construcción, a partir de una metodología que operacionaliza la participación del gobierno, empresas y las comunidades que viven en la zona de desarrollo minero (grupos decisores). En el sistema se consideran los indicadores geológicos y mineros, de crecimiento económico, compensación y desarrollo. Mediante la aplicación del método Delphi se validó el sistema para su aplicación en un caso de estudio, la utilización del proceso analítico jerárquico del análisis multicriterio permitió establecer ecuaciones para determinar los índices de sostenibilidad de la empresa a partir de las emisiones de juicios de los grupos decisores. El resultado de las valoraciones demostró prioridad hacia la dimensión social y los indicadores de desarrollo. A partir de las evaluaciones del cumplimiento de las acciones hacia el desarrollo sostenible, se determinaron los índices de sostenibilidad de los indicadores en el desarrollo sostenible, y finalmente se determinó el índice de sostenibilidad total que resultó de un cumplimiento de 44,6 % hacia el desarrollo sostenible calificando la empresa “caso de estudio” de desempeño medio que satisface parcialmente la condición de sostenibilidad.

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“…Legal reforms in 2001 required small-scale and artisanal gold miners to complete the same technical and environmental studies as the large-scale gold mining projects owned by multinational corporations. Various mining organizations and scholars have shown how these legal changes have criminalized the quotidian practices of thousands of artisanal and small-scale miners in favor of largescale multinational projects (see Sarmiento et al, 2013a;Urán, 2013).…”

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Muddy Decisions: Gold in the Chocó, Colombia

Tubb

2015

The Extractive Industries and Society

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La legalización de la minería a pequeña escala en Colombia

Cited by 6 publications

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An Ethnography of Entanglements: Mercury’s Presence and Absence in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Antioquia, Colombia

An Ethnography of Entanglements: Mercury’s Presence and Absence in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Antioquia, Colombia

Desarrollo sostenible en la actividad minera: un estudio de caso en la provincia de Uige, Angola

Muddy Decisions: Gold in the Chocó, Colombia

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