Over the last decade Colombia has undergone a transformative age that has vastly enhanced the long-term prospects of the country's mining sector. As the administration of former-president Alvaro Uribe aggressively improved the country's security situation from 2002 to 2010, majors and juniors alike demonstrated unprecedented interest in the country in the hope they could capitalize on the exciting geological potential of the "Last Andean Frontier." According to Colombia's National Administrative Department of Statistics, foreign direct investment in the mining sector grew at an average rate of 5% per year between 2005 and 2010. Buoyed by the potential of the industry and the optimism derived from high mineral prices and easy financing, Colombia was already the darling of investors on the TSX when Uribe's defense minister and successor, Juan Manuel Santos, took the reigns of the country in 2010. In an effort to capitalize on this momentum, Santos identified the extractive industries (mining and hydrocarbons) as one of five "locomotives for economic development."
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机译：在过去的十年中，哥伦比亚经历了变革时期，极大地改善了该国采矿业的长期前景。随着前总统阿尔瓦罗·乌里韦（Alvaro Uribe）的政府在2002年至2010年间积极改善该国的安全状况，各专业人士和大三学生都对该国表现出了空前的兴趣，希望他们能够利用“上一次安第斯边境”的令人兴奋的地质潜力。根据哥伦比亚国家统计局的数据，2005年至2010年间，采矿业的外国直接投资平均每年以5％的速度增长。由于该行业的潜力以及矿价高企和融资便利带来的乐观情绪，乌里韦的国防部长兼继任人胡安·曼努埃尔·桑托斯（Juan Manuel Santos）在2010年掌权时，哥伦比亚已经是TSX上投资者的宠儿。为了利用这一势头，桑托斯将采掘业（采矿和碳氢化合物）确定为五种“经济发展机车”之一。
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