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The growth of the mining industry is deteriorating In conclusion if the National Government invest
the environment. For the development of these money of royalties in supply the basics needs of the
activities products highly pollutant are used, which population, they will have access to the public
are damage the earth and water at these places. services such as potable water, sewer system and
Cyanide toxic they will have a free medical attention in a hospital,
gold- their children will go to 
and
chemicals 
mercury
which 
are 
are
highly 
used
by
the
a school. Equally, The
mining industry, which have polluted rivers. In large- environmental impact generated by the mining is
scale already
mining
operations
generally
are
used
irreparable.
International
companies
are
explosives with dynamite that make people and polluting the earth and water sources and prevent
animal Additionally, that the communities can not   inhabit these places.
Billiton The
change
International
their
companies
AngloGold Ashanti
plants the
for
deforestation,
inhabit.
are
like 
BHP
building
minerals,
landscapes
these
and
government
must
comply
with
the
new treatment constitutional and protect the property and honour
have generated of Colombians. Especially, it must protect to people
beauty
have
been who inhabit these areas where ilegal groups are
destroyed by the hands of man. Then, the hands of killing and making these communities disappearing.
man are eradicating the flora and wildlife of these Equally, If the government protects our children and
places. If it guarantees that the children go to school, the
children will be the future of the country and If the
Mining in Colombia is generating multiple violations government does not permit that the children work
to the human rights. Where these resources are   and if it does not approve that their  close relatives
being extracted by the illegal groups, the illegal force them, the children will enjoy their childhood
groups are stealing the land and they are causing and they will grow in a better country where their
displacement of many farmers from the countryside dreams will come reality.
to the cities. Furthermore, here the indigenous
population are disappearing of their communities,
the ilegal groups are killing them. In the same way,
the
families
have
dedicated
to
the
mining
exploitation force the children to work in this activity
To go deep
·https://www.cetim.ch/miner%C3%ADa-y-violaci%C3%B3n-
de-los-derechos-humanos-en-colombia-el-caso-de-anglo-
gold-ashanti-contra-la-comunidad-afrodescendiente-de-la-
against their dignity. Children have not had the toma-cauca/
opportunity to  go to  school and they can not have a ·El Economista. September 14th, 2016.
normal life.
TEM
·Fierro, Julio. Politicas Mineras en Colombia. February, 2012, pp
24.
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