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Cerrejón

Large open-pit coal mine in Colombia
Place opencast_mine Q1323960

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
opencast mine, mine[5]
Inception
1984[9]
Owned by
BHP Group, Anglo American plc, Glencore[6][7][8]
Country
Colombia[3]
Official website
www.cerrejon.com[11]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 11.089°, -72.675°
Area
+690[19]
Continent
South America[4]
Described by source
Hirnychyj Encyclopedychnyj Slovnyk, Mining Technology[16][17]
Employees
+5116[14]
Fabrication method
surface mining[20]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
La Guajira Department, Hatonuevo[1][2]
Located in/on physical feature
Guajira Peninsula[10]
Native label
Cerrejón[18]
Product or material produced
Wikidata item, coal[12][13]
Time of earliest written record
1900[15]
Uses
Cerrejón Formation[21]
🏷️ Also known as
en Cerrejon en Cerrejón en El Cerrejon en El Cerrejón ar سيريخون es El Cerrejón fr Mine de Cerrejon fr Cerrejon fr Cerrejón fr El Cerrejón fr Mine de Cerrejón fr mine de charbon de Cerrejón sv Cerro Cerrejón uk Cerrejón mine uk mina de Cerrejón uk Серрехон zh 塞雷洪煤矿 zh-hant 塞雷洪煤礦
🔖 Identifiers · 8
VIAF cluster ID
240041301
GND ID
4314687-9
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Cerrejón mine.JPG ↗
Described at URL
www.icmm.com
Freebase ID
/m/08__6r
Global Energy Monitor Wiki ID
Cerrejón_Coal_Mine
Quora topic ID
Cerrejon
Yale LUX ID
place/16ddb19c-54ad-49d6-9eb4-ec2bafad7d11

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🔗 Connections
Owned by 3
Glencore, BHP Group, Anglo American plc
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
La Guajira Department, Hatonuevo
Continent 1
South America
Country 1
Colombia
Fabrication method 1
surface mining
Instance of 1
coal mine
Located in/on physical feature 1
Guajira Peninsula
← Location of discovery 1
Carbonemys
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Related Entities

BHP Group Colombia Glencore

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . web.archive.org. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. 17w ago · Vicarage · 2026-07-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Product or material produced → Wikidata item, coal
    Uses → —
    Country → Colombia
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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