A call to the authorities becomes so that they take action against the high degree of contamination that presents/displays the zone

• Isidro Casanova.

Tumeremo. - Given to the enormous amount of miners and other people who continue arriving at the two rackets of Tin Leaf, in the route towards the island of Anacoco, the Mining Power station of the South it initiated managements to organize the miners in cooperatives, with the intention of which are they themselves who orient the work system and begin to correct polluting damages that come growing and the same threaten the health of the people who toil there.

Since we have come informing, in environs of parcels assigned to cooperative of Leaf of Tin, “burst” two rackets auriferous - discovery of deposits of gold, which attracted thousands of people initially, but as the miners commented about the important amounts of gold whom they were obtaining, brought about the attention of many more miners, who arrived from all the state Bolivar and the rest of the country, including some foreigners, now the town that begins to be based, counts with more than 6 thousand people.

An important part of this one amount of people, constitutes the miners, those that dig hollows to extract auriferous material and the rest is conformed by retailers, cooks, traveling, civil service salesmen and until peculiar who go to know how the gold is extracted and as it is the movement.

The spreading outside of the enormous amounts of gold that are “taking hold” the miners, is increased when they take it to the material to process in the mills the Pebble, the Gilded one and the parish San Isidro.

In the mills, where the extracted gold of the processed material is reported, there are many people working and observing, being from which the commentaries arise and know that them are excited and they go away to the two rackets.

It was said inclusively, that some miners, when beginning to receive money by the sale of gold, meet in places public to celebrate and to comment, completing therefore the information of the gold that by amounts the two rackets are throwing of Tin Leaf.

We take refuge in article 70 of the Law of Mines

Thelmo Fajardo, vice-president of the Power station of Miners of the South - Cumis-, inspection realised after them in Tin Leaf, expressed that a high disorder and pollution level exists in the development of the premises for commerce and house. She considered that the organization of the town in cooperatives is necessary so that they, on the other hand, they assume the conduction of the movement and the disorders are avoided.

Fajardo talked about kindness of article 70 of the Law of Mines, indicating that he is perfectly applicable in the rackets of Tin Leaf.

Next, most important of the mentioned article: “The people who carry out subject activities to the regime of small mining, have priority to obtain the authorization of operation in those areas where they are exerting these workings…”

In this respect, Fajardo interprets that the miners who are in the two rackets, must remain but organized there, beginning to develop sanitary systems for its own needs.

It added that already groups of Malariología have appeared to realise fumigations against the malaria, controlling the possible advance of the malaria and they go away solved some problems.

One remembers that the spaces where are the rackets have been described traditionally like “endemic spaces”.

Mission To cheep initiates the evaluation

The high concentration of miners and retailers in the rackets has drawn attention of some authorities.

Initially, the mayoress Carmen de Chancellor emphasized in the place the movable there clinic so that personal paramedical doctor and takes care of the emergencias that can appear and the Foundation Mission To cheep, along with technicians of the Mibam, advance a complete evaluation related to the exact amount of concentrated people, as well as its main problems and other details to formulate an organization program.

In conversations with civil servants of the Mission To cheep, they expressed that first that is recommended in these cases, it is that the miners organize themselves in cooperatives and others. They expressed that being organized, they facilitate the attention of services.

The evacuation is not raised

The consulted civil servants expressed that so far the evacuation of the miners of Tin Leaf is not raised. We consulted to our informants about some commentaries related to people and companies to them that say possessing officials of the lots of earth where are the miners, something that denied.

- Until the moment, nobody has presented/displayed sustenation of its rights. The miners are going away to be there, only who must organize themselves.