La Francia is a coal mine in the Cesar-Ranchería Basin, located in the municipalities Becerril and El Paso, Cesar, Colombia owned by the Goldman Sachs Group.
It mines coal from the Paleocene Los Cuervos Formation, time-equivalent with the Cerrejón Formation, which is mined in the northeastern part of the basin in Latin America's largest coal mine, Cerrejón.
In 2016, La Francia produced 11.6 Megatons of coal.
[4] During the strikes of 2013, miners occupied the mine and refused offers provided by the companies involved.
[5] In 2015, Murray Energy (now known as American Consolidated Natural Resources) purchased the mine from Goldman Sachs.