• Isidro Casanova

The fact that the small auriferous miners, work illegally in a 85%, the decision of which near 85% of gold produced in Venezuela, he is sold to him to the Central bank of Venezuela, he does not affect them, because the same illegality does not force them to have official registries and, therefore, is control of his production nor of no sale.

Part of that small mining, although does not have assigned areas, it is organized in cooperatives and another organism. Those small organized miners who have mining title, register in the Ministry for the Basic Industries and Mining - Mibam- to have right to the allocations of the guides of fuel mobilization. The rest, the one that does not have assigned area nor mining title, does not have right to anything, but equal it works by means of a tolerance regime until some authority arranges to evacuate them. Without area and mining title, the small miner does not have right to fuel nor to take any type of equipment, to the mines that work, but equal they have equipment and fuels. It is the challenge to the authority, so that their decisions are more to tone with the realities, according to say they themselves.

evident contradiction

As a result of which the mining reconversion was decreed by means of which, the Government gave stimuli to the miner who let the mine to dedicate itself to another nondepredadora activity of the environment, arises the necessity to concentrate the small mining in advisable zones. It is then when the president of the republic, Hugo Chavez, decrees to Sifontes like mining municipality. The then Marlene mayoress Vargas asked that along with the decision, they sent resources to take care of the services public and the legal location of miners. This decree remained in that, in a decree because the problem did not advance towards any type of solution.

small miner sells freely

As the gold is fixed assets, that during 500 years of history have in the last not been degraded nor evaporated, it continues being a magical matter and its commercialization is as dynamic as difficult to appreciate it in the commercialization centers.

The miner, the one that produces with the sweat of its front, has the idea that gold burning fire the hand, induces which it to sell it immediately that it Earth extraction. If the buyer does not arrive at the leg of the mine, the miner looks for the buyer where he is and is sold it at the cost of the day. Buyer and salesman know the prices, taking into account the last bulletin of stock-market of London and taking into account the value from the free dollar or permutes, valid for this type of operation.

The fact that the gold is commercialized at the rate of parallel dollar, its price can be tripled there with respect to the price that pays the Central bank of Venezuela, being where is the problem of the official norm of which this metal is sold to him to the Central bank, which is received and paid at the rate of controlled dollar, that is to say, to the change of 2.15.

During both last days of the week that concludes, the gold was paid in the streets of the municipalities of the South, to 150 bolivars strong the gram. This entails to that the kilo of gold costs 150 thousand bolivars strong, three or four times greater, to the price that pays the BCV.

How much and to where the gold goes

By the same illegality in which is good part of the small mining, one does not have a reliable statistic that it determines how much gold takes place in the municipalities of the South of the state Bolivar. From the Roscio municipality, happening through the Pebble, Sifontes and Gran Savannah, the gold production happens to be centennial. The official organisms have started up dispositions different, but no has been sufficiently effective like ordering this productive sector.

If it is not known how much gold produces the small mining, it would be equally difficult to determine where and to who they are sold it. Less one knows still, they sell if it in Venezuela or outside our country.

The illegality is not fault of the small miner

Organizations of small mining, like the Mining Unit of the South, Unique Power station of Small Mining, cooperatives and others, have been proposing that assign parcels to them they equip and them with the permissions, because they want to pay taxes and to offer his production to the Central bank, in exchange for which they grant his titles to them and they leave the secrecy. This proposal has not found answer satisfactory. The answer that they have had of the official sector is that they follow the studies of areas to determine tenors and to determine if the operation is compatible with the environment. This proposal leaves from the mining leaders Pablo Zambrano, Antonio Rivas, Thelmo Fajardo, Dallys Figueroa, William Padilla and others, representing of the unions of small miners. It is possible to emphasize that the small mining, although without permissions, is organized in power stations, cooperatives, companies of social production and others.

industry does not want to sell to the BCV

As we informed in our edition into yesterday, the industrialists do not want to sell gold to the Central bank of Venezuela because to the change of Versus. 2.15 by dollar, do not compensate the production costs and leave losses. They notice that if there is no a reconsideration of the decision, the closing of the industries could appear.

A single private industry

As a result of new decisions of the National Government, cradles in socialist norms that a redistribution of the wealth looks for, the industries of gold which they were based on the municipalities of the South, have left. It has been a single concessionaire who is the Russian group, known initially like the Agapov Group. This group and for reasons that have not been explained, has transformed itself into other industrial denominations like Rusoro Mining Company and Venrusca - Venezuela-Russia. These companies assumed the assets of the company PMG of the Pebble, those of Hecla the Camorra and Hecla the Pebble.