China and Venezuela are committed to strengthening the Venezuelan economy
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May 18, 2010 09:38AM
Crystallex International Corporation is a Canadian-based gold company with a successful record of developing and operating gold mines in Venezuela and elsewhere in South America
China and Venezuela are committed to strengthening the Venezuelan economy
Written by José Garcia - Photos: Miguel Lezama
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
** Representative of China Development Bank and Minister Jose Khan visited Revemin plant and announced that the relationships are increasingly narrowed between the two nations
El Callao .- policies has led the national government which include agreements between countries such as China have come to the south of Bolivar State, then on Sunday a team of high-level Venezuelan government representative accompanied the Development Bank China, who accompanied the Mibam Minister Jose Khan, visited the old Revemin gold processing plant, now known and after the nationalization cmo "Gold Processing Plant Captain Eduardo Vera, to hear some experiences and give recommendations as may exist from the practices employed by the foreign hand.
During the plant tour conducted by senior officials could observe everything related to the process of adjusting the gold and they stopped to make certain recommendations to the staff on duty. Minister Khan, in a meeting with reporters said that his visit was due to give recommendations to go to a computer incorporating planning reindustrialize the country through a high team was headed by Liuw citizen, who is the representative of the Bank China Development.
During this visit the senior official of the national government announced that the Venezuelan State has proposed to increase annual gold production of 4.2 to 10 tonnes from next year and for 2012 it is estimated that raising the target to be 15 tons.
Mibam Minister, stated that the Chinese representative will visit to learn more about the mining, energy, gas, oil and housing. "We are examining all the probabilities and possibilities for the country in terms of working together on the reactivation of Venezuela, this has to do with where cooperation is necessary solidarity, complementarity, where China and Venezuela are committed to help each other strengthening the Venezuelan economy and further strengthen our relations. As you know President Chavez has a commitment to visit China and then will some agreements within this plan that is working president of the republic is nothing that the Chinese Venezuelan heavy bottom, "added Khan.
Also maintained that the plant which processes Revemin sands containing gold and 1,500 tons of material processed per day and has gold recovery of over 90 percent per ton. "That means a high-level processing and Chinese compatriots have demonstrated quite nicely with these experiences we have in the area. We want to ratify the Venezuelan people in this time we will continue working, in the case of iron and is a proposal to agree that some have argued quite clearly and in the case of gold is fully convinced of the need to attack the problem of gold from different forms and one of them is seen as a corporation since its inception with the extraction of iron ore passed through the transformation process of refinement and for that we must encourage schools gold especially in this town where the gold is very well known in the world, "added the head of the Ministry of Basic Industries and Mining.
Highlights
"Among the highlights of the agreements could be generated between the parties are discussing the process of excavation and production that has to do with appropriate technology and environmentally friendly, but above all else that is respectful to life the human or the miners, secondly transforming the production process gold as we can not stay only in importing raw materials but we must create in our country allow light industries that add value, and a third important point it is to build a factory in Venezuela or refining of gold that allows us to refine the material not only gold but refine our gold at the Alba, all designed not only domestically but also in what President and it has been promoting multipolarity or to create a space in Latin America of strength and all these companies have to do also with a socialist market is Latin America, "said Khan.
Asked by reporters about the production of gold in the state Minerven, the official stressed that the company produces about seven tonnes a year. But in the country reported that a large number of tons of gold are going their separate ways and are not registered in Venezuela. "Part of the comprehensive plan that is being done and is going to do with gold in its various dimensions," ended Minister Jose Khan.
China
Meanwhile, the representative of China known as Liuw Kowu, said that after an invitation from President Chavez, "we have come to this earth to do research and learn about the situation of the country's economic development to make some observations and suggestions, the aim of this visit is to give recommendations for Venezuela to do their own planning in the sectors of oil, gas, petrochemical, mining, housing and transport. The subject of gold is a topic that receives serious attention of President Chavez and this time after being here and sharing ideas, we can do something in the three lines that are certified and exploration together with Venezuela, the second is production or operation or raise the production capacity or production and a third line that is mostly processing and refining the high purity of this material. "
Advice
The first phase will give way to some advice and it is possible that in future the Revemin plant could pass into the hands of Chinese managers, and when the State takes overall control of it.