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Workers block Colombia coal miner Cerrejon's rail access to export facility

FILE PHOTO: A mining truck transports coal at a Cerrejon mine near Barrancas, Guajira province, May 24, 2007. Picture taken on May 24, 2007. REUTERS/Jose Miguel Gomez/File Photo

Colombian coal miner Cerrejon, owned by Anglo-Swiss commodities giant Glencore, said on Saturday that a group of former workers has been blocking a rail line to a key export facility on the Caribbean Coast.

Blockades on roads and rail lines around the open pit mine in La Guajira - one of the largest in Colombia, which produced 23.4 million tons of coal last year - are not uncommon.

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