The camping of transnational the Canadian Gold Reserve, Breezes of the Cuyuní, located in the Claritas, was taken by civil servants from the Ministry from the Power Popular for the Basic Industries and Mining (Mibam) and given to the state Minerven that from now on will be made position of the facilities. Luis Herrera, president of Minerven, were present in the occupation which he attended Mail of the Caroní exclusively.

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The company pertaining to transnational the Canadian Gold Reserve is interposing an international resource to demand to the Venezuelan Be in favor of this action and it notified thus it through an official notice that already was published in different mass media.

The taking of the facilities was realised east Monday - with some delays, and it was made effective approximately to the 3:30 of afternoon when the regional director of control of the Mibam, Gustavo Perdomo, and the legal adviser of the organism, Alexandra González, arrived at the concession and informed with act to the representatives into the transnational one.

Breeze the mining right of the Cuyuní was 20 years old and expired, for that reason the Venezuelan State through its institutions decided to take control of the concession, like part of the plan of mining ordering that is carrying out the Mibam.

Complete officiality
The president of Minerven, Luis Herrera, was present in the taking and received the document of the Mibam assigns that it like the being in charge of the 500 hectares that the deposit has. As of this moment a period of transition begins in which the destiny of the 20 employees must be decided who are in the concession.

Herrera explained as far as which Gold Reserve must define what will do with the workers, that is to say if it follows with the labor relation or it pays to a liquidation and its labor liabilities to them. If the last Minerven is fulfilled it could absorb them in the list since or it has done in cases like those of Revemin, of the transnational Crystallex or Jin Yang, pertaining to transnational a Chinese.

Gold Reserve is not in agreement with the measurement, and they let thus know it some Breeze spokesmen of the Cuyuní. Inclusively representing of the company they were obstinate to that Minerven took control of the facilities, fortunately was not necessary the use of the force and the dialogue marked the day.

Policy of State
Herrera said to the representatives who “the concession of Gold Reserve expired and it is assuming it to the State through Minerven. We had already warned, the Mibam to them talked for the conformation of a mixed company and they did not agree, so it is called on to us to assume”.

The president of Minerven said that is possible that an act in the zone with the presence becomes of president Hugo Chavez and the minister Sanz, who wishes to mark you rule in the mining scope of the south of the country.

Breezes of the Cuyuní are within the mining project the Cristinas, one of richest of Latin America. The other part of the Cristinas is in the hands of Crystallex, transnational Canadian that also can leave the granted concession, according to has inquired officially through Mibam. For months this has circulated and until minister it has given it to Sanz by fact, but this not yet takes shape.

Since one has said that the State goes to assume the Cristinas, in their totality, hundreds of miners have put in the deposits to work of illegal way. Although the military administrations have been notified not yet is action to correct this situation.

On the other hand, and although Gold Reserve holds an opposite position to the lapsing of the contract, still has in its power another concession in the same place. The project Breezes of the Cuyuní is for auriferous the alluvium mineral operation - the mineral that is in the surface and the other concession, also of the same company, is underground, but in no there is operation.

The victory of the Breeze concession of the Cuyuní had left months ago in the Official Newspaper. Including the industry it had notified his workers who in view of this could make the decision to remain or to go away. Some preferred to go away and to take a species from “package” that gave the transnational one them, only twenty remained and are with the uncertainty than it can happen to them in the labor plane.

More concessions and investments

The policy of control and recovery of the sector contemplates that other concessions of the zone can be terminated for the conformation of mixed companies with financing of transnational and of the Venezuelan State.

This week surafricanos industralists must arrive at the Pebble, interested in the gold mines and other mineral resources that Bolivar are in the state. The towns of the south yearn for that there are investments so that the economy is reactivated and to count again on use.