With this, there would be about 10 mining complexes found in the east of the region during the year, which were used to exploit mining deposits illegally.
In a military operation coordinated with the National Police, troops of the Fourth Brigade of the Army arrived at the village Brasilia, municipality of Sonsón, Antioquia, where they found and neutralized a five-hectare complex that was used to extract gold illegally.
A mining production unit, a backhoe, two motor pumps, a sorting machine and other elements that would belong to a common crime group were disabled at the site where they produced about four kilos of gold every month, with illicit profits close to 900 million pesos.
In the five hectares recovered, about 1,600 meters of land had been removed and about 3,000 trees had been deforested, whose environmental damage will be begin to recover by nature thanks to the military operation.
Source: Press - National Army
