Implicaciones jurídico-ambientales por el uso de mercurio en la minería aurífera en el departamento de Chocó, Colombia

The main purpose of this article is to establish the legal and environmental implications of the use of mercury in gold mining in the Department of Chocó. To achieve this purpose, we start with the identification of the normative background that regulate the gold mining activity in Colombia, through...

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Autores:
Córdoba Mosquera, Jackson David
Rivas Valencia, Eddy Enrique
Tipo de recurso:
Fecha de publicación:
2019
Institución:
Universidad de San Buenaventura
Repositorio:
Repositorio USB
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:bibliotecadigital.usb.edu.co:10819/7345
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/10819/7345
Palabra clave:
Minería aurífera
Mercurio
Departamento de Chocó
Derecho ambiental
Derecho minero
Minería ilegal
Gold mining
Mercury
Department of Chocó
Environmental law
Mining law
Illegal mining
Mineros
Explotación minera
Rights
License
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.5 Colombia
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Summary:The main purpose of this article is to establish the legal and environmental implications of the use of mercury in gold mining in the Department of Chocó. To achieve this purpose, we start with the identification of the normative background that regulate the gold mining activity in Colombia, through a legal and historical tracking. Second, a description is made of the case of gold mining in the department of Chocó. Subsequently, the environmental effects and impact of human health due to the indiscriminate use of mercury in the gold mining sector in the department of Chocó are outlined. Finally, the responses of the Colombian legal system to the mining-environmental problems caused by gold mining due to the use of mercury are identified