Nearly 50 years making history in Colombia
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2023
We delivered 300 million liters of water to 164 communities in La Guajira with the “Water Train”
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2022
Glencore completes the purchase of Cerrejón.
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2021
From 2014 to date, we have delivered 200 million liters of drinking water to the communities neighboring our operations.
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2020
Claudia Bejarano became the first female CEO of the company. Almost 50% of Cerrejón’s executive committee consists of women.
We planted two million native trees and rehabilitated more than 4,400 hectares of land, contributing to the formation of a biodiversity corridor of more than 25,000 hectares between the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Serranía del Perijá.
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2019
With the Alexander von Humboldt Institute, we established the first tropical dry forest laboratory in the Colombian Caribbean with a huge parcel of land (10 hectares) to monitor this ecosystem.
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2014
We inaugurated the second ship loader in Puerto Bolívar, and Bahía Portete was declared a National Nature Park.
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2002
Intercor merged with Carbones del Cerrejón S.A., and the partnership’s legal name changed to Carbones del Cerrejón LLC (now Carbones del Cerrejón Limited).
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1990
We launched our Land Reclamation Program of lands disturbed by mining before it was a legal requirement in Colombia.
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1985
Before becoming a legal requirement in the country, we implemented a direct coal-loading system by conveyor belt in Puerto Bolívar.
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1984
The first train trip (150 km) transported 8,500 tonnes of coal from the mine to Puerto Bolívar.
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1976
Carbones Colombianos S.A., CARBOCOL and INTERCOR. A signed a partnership contract to exploit El Cerrejón Zona Norte (for an initial period of 33 years).
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1975
The Colombian government opened a tender to international firms for the coal exploitation of 32,000 hectares and chose INTERCOR, a subsidiary of Exxon Corporation (currently Exxon Mobil).