Between 5 and 6 thousand miners are boarding schools in the forest near the island of Anacoco where a fantastic racket arose and a town with its commerce already begins to form

• Isidro Casanova.

San jOse de Anacoco, Special. - In the heart of the forest, direction of the island of Anacoco, between Tumeremo and the Gilded one, a gold deposit arose that the miners call racket, where there are concentrate near 5 thousand people and begins to be developed a town, inhabited by people of all parts, including children. Although there are institutions nor no people who take statistics, the calculations of the same miners, indicate that the extracted material is near the 10 kilos of gold per day. This reference takes into account the enormous amount from coats from material auriferous that remove to take it to the mills, remaining in the good site part of this one because it began to be scarce the transport and the guides of mobilization.

Old woman miners who are in the racket, like William Padilla, confirm that this is an exceptional racket by the high performance. A coat of 40 kilos of material extracted of the hollows that are doing, produces between 10 and 40 grams of gold, constituting a highest tenor who in the last breaks all the yields of the mines of this zone years.

Light trucks pick up of double traction are furrowing to the forest, jumping between shrubs and other obstacles. That way they are penetrating to remove the originating coats of material from a hill. In shoulders, the miners lower the coats they place and them in a patio from where they are embarked to the light trucks and these as well place, them in a place where the trucks can enter to transport them to the mills that in the last are in the Pebble and Gilded although the days, also have settled some of these, in environs of the racket.

Throughout the improvised way, they have been settled kioscos and tarantines with plastic earth floor and ceiling, where dormitories and commerce improvise, especially of foods. In the morning of we could yesterday observe that there was until carved up head of cattle hanging in the farms, where miners and families who already were located there, were provided themselves. Also several cooks arrived who placing their pots in famous topias outdoors prepare soups and other meals, so that the miner tired and with hunger can eat.

Without transport nor guides of mobilization

Material is the auriferous it extracting the miners in numerous hollows, arriving to have some of these, up to 11 meters of depth and continues lowering.

Throughout an access of near two kilometers forest it arrives, the miners have been forming great you stow of coats with auriferous material, in the hope of appropriate transport and guides of mobilization that must send Mibam.

Until the moments, the material coats that have left for the mills, are transported in trucks type 350. As these vehicles are of little capacity, the miners are in the hope that larger trucks arrive. Indeed to noon yesterday they began to arrive some gando them, which could solve the transport problem, being pending the granting of mobilization guides. Consulted miners show that in the offices of Mibam of the Pebble the guides grant, but they complain the remarkable retardation.

Consulted miners calculate who more than 40 thousand coats of auriferous material are stowed in environs of the racket hoping guides and transport.

The miners remove the material in coat and in they take it to shoulders from the hollows to the boarding patio, and from there to the central patio, they pay to 20 bolivars by coat to the driver of the light truck pick to him up, unique vehicle that can enter. Then, from the patio to the mill, 20 bolivars by coat pay to him more to the truck driver it takes so that it to the processing in the mills. When they process the material, the mill one takes 10% produced gold. If somebody contributed hammer and plants electrical, takes 20% from the production. The rest is divided it partly equal, the partners of each group compose who it between 7 and 15 people.

Forward edge of taxis

In the entrance to the mine of taxis has been constituted forward edge, composed by automobiles and light trucks. In automobiles the passage for Tumeremo costs 50 bolivars and 40 in light truck.

There the transit is had congested, as it is a single and it narrows via, are moments in which two serious vehicles find front and this cause upheavals.

Acute shortage of everything

No of the provisions is sufficient and the constant arrival of more people, worsens the shortage. One has inquired that in the racket is people of all the country and until foreigners.

Some carriers are arriving with trucks filled with refreshments and mineral water, products that sell immediately them. As the food shortage is demonstrated, they began to arrive lots from food made in plastic packages.

In this respect, the cooks who also are being located, prepare foods outdoors, especially the popular soup, which eats it to people while it is being ready.