Mining is causing a major environmental deterioration, such as the structural imbalances that bring as direct consequences: land subsidence, cracks in the surface area, loss of runoff surface by percolation of this into the ground and mass movements in the overlapping hillsides, covered area degradation, cracking and destabilization of civil constructions, etc. The fertile hills become barren deserts, as a result of the destruction of topsoil by large jets of pressurized water with pumps or heavy machinery. |
Antioquia ranks first in the production of coffee and banana products such as sugar cane, cacao, cassava and some cereals such as beans, spread over an area of 676,000 hectares |
The first chart shows how is increasing the explotation of gold minin in Antioquia since 1996 to 2005. Now we can see that the highst point was 2003 generating the most pollution in 10 years The second one shows the uraba's precipitation in where in the year 2012 was the highest but nevertheless since this year has diminished |