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The emerald trade is at the center of funding this ongoing civil conflict in Colombia. Emeralds have helped fund many of the armed non-state actors involved in the Colombian internal conflict through means of emerald smuggling and the selling of these precious stones on the international black market. [14]
This is a list of mining areas in Colombia. [1] The mineral industry of Colombia is large and diverse; the country occupies the first place in mining areas per surface area in the world. In pre-Columbian times, mining of gold, silver, copper, emeralds, salt, coal and other minerals was already widespread.
Muzo (Spanish pronunciation:) is a town and municipality in the Western Boyacá Province, part of the department of Boyacá, Colombia.It is widely known as the world capital of emeralds for the mines containing the world's highest quality gems of this type.
Colombia is the main producer of finer quality emeralds worldwide. Colombia produced 2.7 Mcarats (540 kg) of emeralds during 2008. [15] Emerald mines are located both in the Boyacá and Cundinamarca Departments. Colombian emeralds constitute 50-95% of the world production, the numbers depending on the year, source and emeralds grade. [25] [26] [27]
Remaining of the Muisca economy in the present are the many markets throughout central Colombia, the emerald mining (Colombia is the most productive country worldwide of the green beryl gemstone, producing 70–90% of their finest quality ones) [41] and the elaboration of cloths and pottery.
The Las Pavas, also called La Pava (Spanish: Mina La(s) Pava(s)), [2] is a Colombian emerald mining area that is neighboring Colombia's largest emerald mine, Puerto Arturo.It is located 200 kilometres (120 mi) northwest of the capital Bogotá in the western emerald belt of Muzo, and about 235 kilometres (146 mi) west of Chivor, which is in the eastern emerald belt.
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La Pita is one of Colombia's largest emerald mines in Colombia, tantamount to its competitor, previously called Puerto Arturo, at present known as the Muzo Mine. La Pita has been one of the biggest contributors to Colombia's emerald production at times producing more than 80% of the total output of emeralds in Colombia.