| Location | |
|---|---|
  La Francia | |
| Location | Becerril & El Paso Cesar-Ranchería Basin |
| Department | Cesar |
| Country | Colombia |
| Coordinates | 09°40′16.6″N 73°46′26.5″W / 9.671278°N 73.774028°W |
| Production | |
| Products | Coal |
| Production | 4.1 Megatons |
| Financial year | 2019 |
| Type | Coal mine |
| History | |
| Opened | 2000 |
| Active | 2000-2010 (Coalcorp) 2010-2013 (Goldman Sachs) 2013-2014 (Operations suspended) 2015-2020 (Murray Energy) 2020+ (Operations suspended) |
| Owner | |
| Company | American Consolidated Natural Resources (previously known as Murray Energy) |
| Year of acquisition | 2015 |
La Francia is a coal mine in the Cesar-Ranchería Basin, located in the municipalities Becerril and El Paso, Cesar, Colombia owned by the Goldman Sachs Group. It mines coal from the Paleocene Los Cuervos Formation, time-equivalent with the Cerrejón Formation, which is mined in the northeastern part of the basin in Latin America's largest coal mine, Cerrejón. In 2016, La Francia produced 11.6 Megatons of coal.[1]
- ^ (in Spanish) Producción de carbón en Colombia - UPME