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ANM's Pardo reveals corruption, inefficiency in Colombia agency review

Colombia’s new head of the ANM National Mining Agency, Alvaro Pardo, has reported initial results of a shake up of the country’s mining authority.

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Alvaro Pardo, president of Colombia's ANM

Pardo reviewed a sample of the 7200 mining concessions and reported finding widespread irregularities, significant sums in payments owed to the state, inefficiency and corruption by agency