2021-02-182015-01-010122989323462051SCOPUS;2-s2.0-84952024907http://hdl.handle.net/10784/25713This article examines the circumstances that led to the issuance of a special regime for marmato mines in the mid-twentieth century, which reserves the top of the hill for the small-scale mining exploitation. it also explores the validity of these rules and how they have influenced the social construction of territoriality and a way of life developed around the traditional practice of small mining.spahttps://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/0122-9893MarmatoMining legislationSmall-scale miningSocial and environmental conflictTerritorialityinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article2021-02-18G. MESA10.18601/01229893.n35.05