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Miners reject possible expropriation of Russian miner
Thursday, 10 of June of 2010

Community, unions, workers and retailers will go out like in last days protesting by the financial problems again that auriferous miner Rusoro Mining crosses.

Natalie Garci'a
Photo William Urdaneta

Daivis: “ Personages whom nothing they have to do with the company want to weaken our right requests ”
Employees of auriferous miner Rusoro Mining, located to the south of the state Bolivar, denied to be in agreement with the possible estatización of the asked for company east Wednesday in Caracas by a group of orerators of deposits, that assure to be affected by the transnational one.

For weeks the old Russian group Agapov announced its possible bankruptcy as a result of the application of the resolution of the Central bank of Venezuela (BCV) that establishes the Regime of Commercialization of Gold and its Alloys, published in June of the 2009, according to which the company must sell to the financial organization the 60 percent of its production to the type of effective change and the 10 percent to him to the national market, that also is paid to the official type of currencies.

They are Davis, work secretary and reclamation of the union of Promotora Minera Guayana (PMG) of the Rusoro group, explained that the people who were protesting in Caracas in favor of the estatización are “weakening the efforts” that they have come realising so that the government equals the conditions in the commercialization regime of gold.

Unique investor
On the other hand suppliers like Jesus Guzmán, representative of Ramel Constructor, one of greatest than quick service to PMG and Rusoro, commented that the economic benefits that the mining of this transnational one generates include not only the municipality the Pebble, but the other localities inclusively Ordaz Port.

In the case of its company that toils in the mining tasks, this maintains a list of 230 workers, who would be affected if Rusoro closes its doors.

Guzmán emphasized that the auriferous miner is unique who in the last years has developed to new projects in the south, generating progress and prosperity in economies whose rate of unemployment surpassed the 30 percent, according to the numbers handled by the compatible union and Chamber of Commerce.

The proposal of Rusoro is to take refuge in the same norms that prevail to the public companies, that must offer only the 50 percent of the production to the type of effective official exchange rate.

Symbolic taking

Today retailers, communities, workers and unions of the Roscio municipalities, Callao and Sifontes will realise a symbolic taking of the localities in support to the situation that crosses the group Rusoro Mining to continue demanding the Government clear rules that they guarantee the progress of these towns and the improvement of the quality of life of his inhabitants.

The manifestation comprises of the series of activities that for weeks come realising the affected ones by the resolution from the Central bank of Venezuela. The past Wednesday, for example, was civic unemployment in the mentioned municipalities that the life of these localities stopped during hours, that depend in their majority of the mining.

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