Even against a backdrop of the usual gringo “Don’t come home in a body bag,” or, “Colombia, like British Columbia?” There is a centuries-long tradition of precious metals (and stones) in South America’s longest standing democracy.
Nowhere is it stronger than in hard-working Antioquia, the department that surrounds the sunny city of Medellin.
“In the town of Anori we have miners that created our first paved roads in the region. Zancudo has its own currency,” says Nicolas Lopez Botero, secretary of Mines for the Department of Antioquia. “Maybe 90 percent of all of Antioquia’s municipalities started as mines.”
Mr. Lopez and his office organize the annual Feria Minera in Medellin. It started today (Wednesday) and brings a record 12,000 (or more) attendees and 280 exhibitors to this large and gorgeous city in the Andes. I’d call that a regular scrum.
I have been coming here since 2007 or so: El Marmato, Zancudo, Burritica. La Mina. Titiribi. It’s getting crowded.
I cannot keep up with the dozens of new faces and prospector companies in the Colombia mix. Not just gold either, but silver, copper, iron ore, coal, platinum. Oil.
StockHouse.
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