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...
- 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
| 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 |
|---|