Cerrejón
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Cerrejón is a large open-pit coal mine in Northern Colombia owned by Glencore. At Cerrejón, low-ash, low-sulphur bituminous coal from the Cerrejón Formation is excavated. At over the mine is one of the largest of its type, the largest in Latin America and the tenth biggest in the world. Cerrejón is divided into three sections, North Zone, Central Zone and South Zone. Total proven reserves are estimated at 503 megatonnes. In 2016, the mine produced .
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Wikidata facts
- Area
- 690
- Employees
- 5116
- Official website
- www.cerrejon.com
- Image
- Cerrejón 3.jpg
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- time of earliest written record
- 1900-00-00
- described at URL
- www.icmm.com/en-gb/research/data/2025/global-mining-dataset
- Commons category
- Cerrejón
- native label
- Cerrejón
- inception
- 1984-00-00
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21 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Prehistory
- History
- The 19th century
- Cerrejón North Zone
- Cerrejón Central Zone
- Patilla Area
- Cerrejón South Zone
- Description
- Operator
- Integrated operation
- Workforce
- Mining fleet
- Railway
- Port
- Extraction process
- Environmental and human rights concerns - Environmental Racism
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Cerrejón is a large open-pit coal mine in Northern Colombia owned by Glencore. At Cerrejón, low-ash, low-sulphur bituminous coal from the Cerrejón Formation is excavated. At over the mine is one of the largest of its type, the largest in Latin America and the tenth biggest in the world. Cerrejón is divided into three sections, North Zone, Central Zone and South Zone. Total proven reserves are estimated at 503 megatonnes. In 2016, the mine produced .
In June 2020, lawyers for the local Wayuu community lodged a request to the United Nations special rapporteur for human rights and the environment for work to be immediately halted over environmental and human rights concerns. In September 2020, several UN independent human rights experts called for the mining operations to be temporarily suspended, citing the serious damage to the environment and the negative effects on the health and other rights of the indigenous peoples who live in the area due to the spread of coal dust and water pollution.
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