Bijao-La Guacamaya Coal Mine

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Bijao-La Guacamaya Coal Mine (Mina Bijao-La Guacamaya) is an operating coal mine in Puerto Libertador, Córdoba, Colombia.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Bijao-La Guacamaya Coal Mine	Puerto Libertador, Córdoba, Colombia	7.882676, -75.699816 (exact)

The map below shows the exact location of the coal mine:

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status

Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating	–	–	–

Table 3: Operation details

Note: The asterisk (*) signifies that the value is a GEM estimated figure.

Capacity (Mtpa)	Production (Mtpa)	Year of Production	Mine Type	Mining Method	Mine Size (km2)	Mine Depth (m)	Workforce Size
–	0.4	2021	Surface	Open Pit	–	50*	417*

Table 4: Coal resources and destination

Total Reserves (Mt)	Year of Total Reserves Recorded	Total Resources (Mt)	Coalfield	Coal Type	Coal Grade	Primary Consumer/ Destination
–	–	–	–	Subbituminous	Thermal	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Sator SAS	Grupo Argos	Colombia

Expansion/Extension

Table 6: Project status

* Added capacity of a coal mine refers to the enhancement in the mine's production capabilities beyond its initial production capacity.

Status	Status Detail	Project Type	Project Phase	Added Capacity (Mtpa)*	Start Year
Shelved	Permitted	Expansion	–	0.6	–

Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the GEM April 2024 Global Coal Mine Tracker dataset.

Background

The Bijao-La Guacamaya Coal Mine project (known locally as Mina de carbón Bijao-La Guacamaya) is a coal mine in Puerto Libertador, Córdoba, Colombia. As of August 2021, Colombia's national mining agency listed the Bijao-La Guacamaya Mine as a project of Sator S.A.S. (Grupo Argos). Grupo Argos listed the Bijao mine as an active, open-pit mining project in a March 2015 corporate presentation, but has not mentioned the project in subsequent annual reports.

Grupo Argos's March 2015 corporate presentation showed total coal production from its Sator subsididary to be around 480,000 tonnes in 2012, 610,000 tonnes in 2013 and 670,000 tonnes in 2014, but it was unclear how much of this production came specifically from the Bijao mine. Between 2014 and 2020, the Bijao-La Guacamaya mine appears to have averaged slightly less than 500,000 tonnes of coal production per year.

As of August 2021, Sator (Grupo Argos) had been granted an environmental license and received government approval for its official work plan for a mine expansion. Estimated production for the expansion was listed at 600,000 tonnes per annum, while total capacity was listed at 1 million tonnes. However, by February 2024, no further information of the expansion was available and Colombia's National Agency of Mining (Agencia Nacional de Mineria) had not provided any updates to the 2021 proposal. Without evidence of the expansion's progress or development since 2021, the expansion project was presumed shelved.

• Operator: Vías y Explanaciones S.A.S.
• Owner: Sator S.A.S.
• Parent company: Grupo Argos
• Location: Puerto Libertador, Córdoba, Colombia
• GPS coordinates: 7.882676, -75.699816 (exact)
• Mine status: Proposed
• Start year:
• Mineable reserves:
• Resources: 11.5 MT (million metric tonnes)
• Coal type:
• Mine size:
• Mine type: Open pit
• Useful life of mine: 22 years
• Historic production: approximately 400,000 tonnes per annum
• Anticipated production of mine expansion: 600,000 tonnes per annum
• Equipment:
• Number of employees: 50

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