The Responsible Mining Foundation says vast majority of companies are still unable to demonstrate that they are reviewing how effectively they are managing TSF-related risks.

Pandemic decimates value of world's 50 biggest mining companies despite strong showing by gold miners.

It has also suspended contracts with most of the companies involved in the project.

Following the identification of the first case of COVID-19 on March 24, a worker died over the weekend.

The accident took place at the Veracruz coal mine in the Cundinamarca department.