Informal mining is “constituted by the units of small and medium farms individually owned and without any type of accounting records ”, that is, it is carried out by small miners, in an artisanal way. Typically this is people who carry out the mining activity of yesteryear, rustic and not for the purpose of massive exploitation, but for subsistence. This kind of mining is especially problematic, because although its exercise generates negative impacts, these will always be less scale than those generated by large companies engaged in mining exploitation, but, in any case, being exercised in a so rustic, the preservation of the environment is not taken into account, which generates serious damage to natural resources, in addition to Due to its form of incorporation, it frequently evades the payment of taxes. For all the above, the purpose of the State is to formalize mining activity, to exercise greater monitoring and control19; without However, this generates many costs for informal miners, which translates into disinterest in formalization and remains the illegality of the activity.(López, 2017)