{"id":1157614,"date":"2019-12-30T12:14:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T18:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1010216"},"modified":"2019-12-30T12:14:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T18:14:57","slug":"plan-to-protect-land-around-anglogold-ashantis-copper-project-in-colombia-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1157614","title":{"rendered":"Plan to protect land around AngloGold Ashanti\u2019s copper project in Colombia fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mayor of the Jeric\u00f3 municipality in Colombia\u2019s Antioquia department said on Monday that his office\u2019s proposal to modify the Territorial Planning Structure to protect the area surrounding the Quebradona mining project failed today at city council.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center d-xs-block d-sm-block d-md-none'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Talking to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Caracol Radio (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/caracol.com.co\/emisora\/2019\/12\/30\/medellin\/1577667014_926803.html\" >Caracol Radio<\/a>, Mayor Jorge P\u00e9rez said that both the federal government and Quebradona\u2019s owner AngloGold Ashanti (JSE:ANG) (ASX:AGG) (NYSE:AU) put enough pressure on city councillors to drive them to forfeit their votes on the matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to P\u00e9rez, his proposal entailed protecting 60% of the soil around Quebradona, allowing only agricultural activities in the area and banning mining operations. To approve it, quorum at city council was needed but it wasn\u2019t reached because many councillors didn\u2019t show up for Monday\u2019s session.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since the matter will not be voted on again, the Mayor said it is considered closed.<\/p>\n<p>Both the local executive and environmentalist groups have expressed concern over the possibility of AngloGold Ashanti\u2019s project polluting the town\u2019s aquifers. A number of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"legal procedures (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/colombian-authorities-file-claim-against-anglogold-ashantis-subsidiary\/\" >legal procedures<\/a> have been filed against Quebradona but most of them have failed to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>Through its subsidiary Minera de Cobre Quebradona, AngloGold Ashanti has invested $65 million in advancing the 7,500-hectare project, which is estimated to host some 5 million tonnes of copper reserves, as well as smaller quantities of gold, silver and molybdenum.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was no quorum at Jeric&oacute;&rsquo;s city council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1157614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157673,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157614\/revisions\/1157673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1157614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1157614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1157614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}