Ministry of Environment enabled small-scale mining areas
Written by Editor
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Ciudad Guayana .- At a meeting in Caracas, the Environment Minister, Alejandro
Hitcher ratified its decision to allow exploitation work in certain areas to be
allocated to the artisanal miners in Guyana.
The information was provided by the president of the Cooperative Betera 086
artisan miners, Nelly Sun Matute, who described the meeting as "very positive."

According to the leader of the small mining Guyanese, the announcement means the
facilitation of six renewals of "Approval of Allocation" which are approved
areas for the exercise of this profession, in accordance with the Mining Act in
force and which are located in Cuyuni River Basin.

These areas must be inspected by a technical commission composed of the
cooperative, Mibam and two designated spokespersons of the respective mining
sectors, and then proceed to the relocation of the miners organized in different
organizations and they were evicted by the Plan Caura.

9 outstanding areas

Nelly Sun announced Matute, the nine remaining areas currently created for the
same effect should follow the same procedure in order to reach a full
normalization of small-scale mining fully legalized.

According to the spokeswoman, these executive decisions, it is possible ways to
implement and secure funding, multidisciplinary projects and use the best
technology assessment and exploitation. All this is to, maximize ore recovery
and minimize environmental impact.

Nelly Sun likewise referred Matute, it is important to touch the issue of
continuation of the Caura Plan "in the active areas of Small Scale Mining in the
municipalities, Roscius, El Callao, especially Sifontes, where his main urban
living almost exclusively on small-scale mining.

In this context, the source took to ensure the mining areas such as Guyana and
Icabarú, Sabanita, Santa Elena de Uairen, that their cases will be elevated to
the highest governmental level, to be reconsidered and disembodied, temporarily,
in an update Spatial Plan of Bolivar State, enacted in 1995. (With information
from Media Team)

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