Moola,

From the article, "... RusKaolin which was set up to exploit China clay from an open-pit deposit between Las Brisas del Cuyuni and Las Cristinas." Without knowing the exact location, your questions may or may not be worthwhile pursuing.

If Roy is unwilling to allow you to verify the facts, that would be his choice (but makes one think it is suspect). To Roy's credit he has already posted the KRY rebuttal PR and another article concerning GRZ and their statement on the situation.

Anyway, FWIW, it looks like Ruskaolin was set up to mine china clay (kaolin), which may fall under completely different environmental requirements than gold mining.

An aside, I do my best to not visit the VHeadline site pretty much anymore, because I have experienced problems with ad-ware and mal-ware getting downloaded in the background, with resulting problems and slow computer performance. Just a heads up.