Workers choose to enter private land, whether agricultural or given in concession, to the unemployed.

• Isidro Casanova

Engineers and Juan Claudio Palazzi Sergio Alcala, manager of the Las Cristinas project.

If Las Cristinas

The Las Cristinas project located in this population Sifontes mining town, gateway to theGran Sabana and which has a concession of about 5 hectares, is being the most affected by the influx of small independent miners.

The company Crystallex, operator of the Las Cristinas project, mandated by the CVG is thedealership that maintains a system of surveillance of the area of Las Cristinas, but even so, the small miner enters the mine and works.

The small mine, in this case and others, argues that they were first.

Las Cristinas is based on a concession granted by the then president of the republic, Raúl Leoni. The award came in the name of an American geographer Lemus surname. This concession is not the mine exploded and he died, passed to his widow Doc Lemus, who is living in United States leased the concession Amalfi Grossi, an Italian that exploded for about 15 years until the grant expired and revertedto the State Venezuela, when the Ministry of Mines CVG delegated the administration of the mines of Guiana and won this award.

According to information we have, when you start the movement of securities related to these lands,miners began to arrive and start work messy.

The miners say they first came to these lands and therefore their rights must come first. They claim to have more than 50 years to exploit the land.

According to company information and as we see in place, surveillance exercised Crystallex is extensive. They have private security patrols, covering the areas limiting. The patrols moving up of four mountain bikes on request. The surveillance complex, made through the cavalry brigade. . Keepers are trained internal galloping in an effort to defend the rights they say are being met CVG and the terms of the contract signed in 2002.

Engineers Claudio Palazzi, manager of Las Cristinas and Sergio Alcalá,director of the environmental area, said that the work is within the terms of agreements with the CVG.

Where is the gold miners will be

Paul Zambrano,Antonio Rivas, José Manuel Rivas Rivero Figueroa Dallys, Omelio Head and other leaders of the mining unit of the South, stressed that a formula to end the invasion, is delivered to small-scale miners, those plots where previously inventoried and geologically has good light gold. The miner, with a plot to invade productive forget and also legally eligible to quotas of fuel and the use of mechanical mine. They note that while this happens, this will be illegal mining.

Other sources claim that in these municipalities in the South, the work of mining becomes a tradition in which generations and generations have lived in this work. Tradition and customs, is a right forthe job, especially when many small miners have this activity as a single income to support his family.

Emphasizes in this regard, government agencies, especially Mibam have to understand that judging from thefacts, where is the gold miners. The same eagerness to get gold and household income, the miner is not finding out who are the lands where they go. In this regard, the miners are not afraid of the authorities, to the beasts of the jungle, malaria,malnutrition or even because the mining jungle hardly eat.

Hope to launch the project

Judging by the opinion of persons contacted in the community because there is great expectation boot Las Cristinas Project. . Even some of the workers who are illegally in the concession area, considered to been gaged in this mining activity, because they have no alternative work for the daily sustenance for your family. However, do not lose hope that the national government gives green light for this activity in the south. "If you start the project, we have to work there," expressed some of the miners interviewed.

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