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Colombia's real copper potential

Colombia’s mining agencies are abuzz with the country’s prospects for developing a copper industry to capitalise on the red metal potential of the three belts of Andes mountains bisecting it as the worldwide trend to decarbonisation of energy and transportation systems lifts demand.

Paul Harris in Medellin, Colombia
 Colombia's Mande copper belt with principal targets highlighted

Colombia's Mande copper belt with principal targets highlighted

To this end, in March, Colombia's National Mining Agency (ANM) launched the first Copper Round, an auction of four greenfield areas with sedimentary copper potential in Cesar and La Guajira, as it seeks...

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