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Message: SANZ says hecla terminated..

SANZ says hecla terminated..

posted on Apr 26, 2008 04:17AM
Mibam was committed to pay debts of the mining reconversion

They will terminate concessions that have been granted in Bolivar

SAILU URRIBARRÍ NÚÑEZ

SPECIAL FOR THE UNIVERSAL ONE

City Bolivar. - In an assembly that summoned to approximately 300 miners of the state Bolivar, the holder of the Ministry of Basic Industries and Mining (Mibam), Roldolfo Sanz, announced the indemnification to the participant miners in the extinct program of "Mining Reconversion".

The order of payment to the mining workers emanates of a presidential mandate and the Executive still works in defining the amount to which he promotes the total debt in this sector.

Minister Sanz advanced that in addition to the payment of "the commitments that will be honest with the miners of Bolivar" the State he works in a proposal for the development of the sector that in the next days will be raised to the considered one of 35 thousand miners that is concentrated in the bolivarense organization.

The proposal of the National Executive will condense, among other ideas, the definition of an area for the execution of the mining of permisada way, the total evacuation of the river basins of the state Bolivar and terminating some concessions that have been granted in that organization.

One went ahead that the case of the North American company Hecla is studied by the Executive, and although its concession wins in March of 2008 "already I issued order that went ahead the process to terminate it", said Sanz.

This company was denounced by labor abuse from its workers, reason why the government has decided that the concession is terminated.

The holder of the Basic Ministry of Industries and Mining said that "if some company is wanted to go, we will not have no problem in receiving our plants and our mines", situation in which is the Yin-yan company, permisada for the auriferous operation in the Callao, to the south of Bolivar.

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