Daños ambientales por la explotación minera ilegal de oro en el Municipio de Timbiquí

Abstract

the gold is a natural product that represents wealth before the European invasion for them and for those countries that have it, for the capitals who extracted it, thanks to the values that reaches to the different markets. Historically and through time the demand for this metal has increased and with it the number of people engaged in extracting it and get it. This process is done through mining in some cases legally and others illegally. Technique of exploitation and benefit process, or the method depend on the type of deposit and the regulations of law found in the land. For it is used tools and substances chemical that affect and deteriorate the ecosystem. By it earlier is necessary, count with them permits and licenses that authorize perform this activity, by the commitment of the recovery and restoration of the land that assumes who it explodes. Do it without having it is considered ilegal.

The practice of the mining is back to times colonial in the municipality of Timbiqui (Coast peaceful Colombian), time from which has been considered a place rich in that mineral. In this territory mining has been practiced by tradition and as an inheritance, has been an active part in the economy of this municipality, displacing and replacing the agricultural activities such as the planting of crops and animal husbandry. But also has brought to get important changes in the environment that year after year are more worrying. The work aims to describe and analyze the impacts that the practice of illegal mining has caused to the components of biotic and Abioticos in the municipality and the negative relationship that obviously is going to have sustainable development. The descriptive analysis based on an analysis of several documents published in news, reports and other studies are therefore used.