COLOMBIA
Mining Information
The country details are:
- Continent: South America
- Area: 1,141,748 sq km / 440,715 sq ml
- Capital: Bogota
- Language: Spanish
- Currency: Colombian Peso
- Population: 41,662,073
- Life expectancy: 66 (men), 72 (women)
- Literacy rate: 88%
- Religions: Roman Catholic
- Ethnic distribution: Mixed Spanish, Indian, African decent
- Physical features: Andes mountains run north / south, flat coastline in west, plains (IIanos) in east, almost half the country is forested
- Exports: Emeralds (world's largest producer), coffee (world's second largest producer), bananas, cotton, meat, sugar, oil, tobacco, petroleum, cut flowers
Mining and Quarrying Information
The details available in the Mine & Quarry Data database are shown below:
- 6 owners/operators are known to be based in this country.
- 33 operations are known of in this country.
Mineral Extraction
The specific mineral extraction details available in the Mine & Quarry Data database are shown below: