Mining Law
Advise and legal representation before the various institutions involved in Colombia’s mining sector.
- Granting and registration process of mining rights (mining concessions) in the national mining register for national and foreign natural and juridical persons.
- Sale of mining rights (transfer of rights of a mining concession, assignment of areas) and establishing taxes on mining rights.
- Preparing subcontracts for conducting surveys, works and projects relative to mining exploitations.
- Claims for damages caused by exploration activities.
- Preparing easement agreements.
- Preparing writs of protection for the immediate suspension of the occupation, disturbance or dispossession by third parties of areas subject of mining rights, and legal representation in the corresponding procedure.
- Preparing partnership and operation agreements for exploring and exploiting areas under concession.
- Procedures regarding quarrying.
- Procedures regarding the extraction of construction materials (stone products in mines and quarries, sands, loose stone found in riverbeds and riverbanks).
- Representation in the event of fines and statements of revocation of mining concessions.
- Representation in legal actions for annulment of contracts and nullity of environmental permits.