El Campano Mine
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El Campano Mine (Mina El Campano) is an operating coal mine in Puerto Libertador, Córdoba, Colombia.
Location
Table 1: Project-level location details
| Mine Name | Location | Coordinates (WGS 84) |
|---|---|---|
| El Campano Mine | Puerto Libertador, Córdoba, Colombia[1][2] | 7.96914095, -75.66710285 (exact) |
The map below shows the exact location of the coal mine:
Project Details
Table 2: Project status
| Status | Status Detail | Project Type | Opening Year | Closing Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating[2] | – | New[2] | 2019[2] | – |
Table 3: Operation details
| Capacity (Mtpa) | Production (Mtpa) | Year of Production | Mine Type | Mining Method | Mine Size (km2) | Mine Depth (m) | Workforce Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.6[2] | – | – | Surface[2] | Open Pit[2] | – | 50.0* | 200.0[2] |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22.5[2] | 2022[2] | 25.0[2] | – | Bituminous | Thermal[2] | Other Industrial |
Table 5: Ownership and parent company
| Owner | Parent Company | Headquarters |
|---|---|---|
| Carbomas S.A.S[2] | Carbomas SAS [100.0%] | – |
Note: The above sections were automatically generated and are based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker May 2026 release.
Ownership Tree
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Background
El Campano Coal Mine (Mina El Campano) is an operating open-pit coal mine operating under mining title FKG-107 in Puerto Libertador, Córdoba. Operations commenced in 2019. The mine produces sedimentary thermal coal with capacity at 2,200 tonnes per day, with average annual production estimated at 790,000 tonnes. Proven and probable mineral reserves totalled 22.5 Mt and total resources 25 Mt as of 2022. The reported mine life was 14 years as of the April 2022 Agencia Nacional de Minería (ANM) project profile.[3]
Total investment was reported at US$4 million (as of 2021), of which US$2 million had been executed.[3]
As of March 2026, no updated ANM project profile beyond the April 2022 filing was identified in publicly available sources. The mine's operating status was inferred from the April 2022 ANM profile confirming active exploitation, the approved environmental license and PTO on record, and the absence of any reported closure or suspension in publicly available sources.[4]
Ownership
El Campano Mine was operated by Carbomas S.A.S., with Carbomax S.A.S. and Geocosta Ltda listed as investors in the April 2022 ANM project profile. Carbomas S.A.S. also operated the El Congo Coal Mine in Córdoba and was in the process of developing a third title, La Estrella, in Puerto Libertador and Montelíbano as of 2022. The legal representative of Carbomas was Homero Gómez Amaya. Carbomas sold coal to Cerro Matoso, the South32-operated ferronickel mine in Montelíbano.[3][5]
Environmental and Social Context
In June 2022, Puerto Libertador journalist Rafael Moreno announced an investigation into irregularities at a separate Carbomas mining title, La Estrella, in Puerto Libertador and Montelíbano, suspecting the company had been operating without an environmental license and without conducting legally required prior consultation with local communities. On July 2, 2022, Moreno received a death threat on his motorcycle; three days later he retracted a freedom of information request he had submitted to Carbomas. Moreno was murdered on October 16, 2022. A post-mortem investigation by the Forbidden Stories consortium, El Espectador, and OCCRP confirmed that satellite imagery from May 2022 showed La Estrella in active exploitation prior to the grant of its environmental license. CVS approved the environmental license for La Estrella in November 2022, approximately one month after Moreno's killing. The investigation concerned La Estrella specifically; El Campano held a CVS environmental license approved in 2017.[6][5][7]
No ANM project profile or mining title registration for La Estrella mine under Carbomas S.A.S. or related entities was identified in publicly available sources as of March 2026.
Articles and Resources
Additional data
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References
- ↑ https://maps.app.goo.gl/nfHZajdREs76suGE8.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 (PDF) https://mineriaencolombia.anm.gov.co/sites/default/files/docupromocion/El%20Campano%20Mine%20Project%2004%202022.pdf.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "El Campano Mine Project" (PDF). Agencia Nacional de Minería. April 19, 2022. Retrieved March 25, 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Búsqueda de Títulos y Solicitudes – AnnA Minería". Agencia Nacional de Minería. Retrieved March 25, 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Los peligros de la gran minería en Córdoba de los que intentó alertar Rafael Moreno". El Espectador. April 19, 2023. Retrieved March 25, 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Rafael Project: how mining companies bleed the land dry in Colombia". Forbidden Stories. Retrieved March 25, 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Colombian Journalist: Kill Me But You Won't Silence Me". OCCRP. Retrieved March 25, 2026.
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