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While juniors are still pinching pennies and dreaming of making it big with a killer discovery, engaging local communities around potential mine sites might seem like an added expense that is just not worth it. Continental Gold's (TSX: CNL) Alexandra Gu??queta would disagree.

Alastair Sharp in Toronto

Continental Gold has hired 37 graduates from Colombia's Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje (SENA), including 19 of the first women in the country to be certified as underground mining technicians

The development-stage miner is navigating a tricky post-conflict landscape in Colombia, where former rebels and criminal gangs eye illegal mining as a legitimate career move following decades of armed conflict.