Colombia Backs BHP Mine Expansion for Record Coal Output in 2017
- Government is in talks to resolve Cerrejon expansion hurdles
- Preliminary data show 2016 production was 88 million tons
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Colombia’s government is working to remove obstacles to expansion at the country’s largest coal mine to help boost national production to a record of more than 90 million tons.
“We expect a recovery above the 90 million target in 2017,” Mines and Energy Minister German Arce said in a interview in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday.