finally, for all of you who laughed, called me ignorant, etc etc...

after an offensive over the last two months that shut hundreds of mines, which the army says produced twice Venezuela's official gold output, along with other minerals.

"We have stopped them producing of 1 ton of gold and 5,000 karats of diamonds every month," General Henry Rangel, said during a recent visit to a camp, only a few minutes flight from the world's tallest waterfall, Angel Falls.

i guess a couple illegal miners with donkeys and shovels can produce some gold....unbelievable...