Mining in Times of Coronavirus:

Subsistence, artisanal and small-scale mining has the advantage of retaining or increasing its price in times of economic crisis, which is the reason for the importance generated by the Coronavirus, which caused individuals, companies, investment funds and other financial actors to invest in this mineral to safeguard their assets and obtain profits, a reason that generates effects to the gold value chain; Furthermore, the pandemic has caused coal, another mineral of national interest, to go through one of the worst moments in the history of the sector, whose market presents uncertainty for the future and there are prospects for other minerals such as nickel, on which future expectations have been focused, where reference must be made to the fact that communities are involved in this activity, environmental impacts, political-economic guideline of the state, among other realities of the dynamics of marginal mining territories such as the presence of violence and illegal armed groups, where the Coronavirus highlighted the structural weaknesses and shortcomings of the state not only in public health, but also in standards for the sustainability of the activity.