The merger between gold and oil industry begins to take shape, as PDVSA Industrial will be responsible for the administration of the mining sector.

The mining sector fell 5.3% in 2012. File Photo

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For several years the National Executive arose Gold Corporation to create the re-route With-enabling of this industry and the creation of the joint action plan for the development of the Orinoco Oil Belt (FPO) and Arc Mining I drew a joint venture between PDVSA and the Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana, a reorganization was expected, in addition to the wing attachment mining oil portfolio.

The Mining and Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez said Monday the creation of the Venezuelan Corporation of Mines as part of the measures adopted by President Hugo Chavez in Cuba in economic matters.

Just in September 2011, the former Minister of Basic Industries and Mining, José Khan, reported a business reengineering in 2013. "Our companies work as islands. Working in corporations will allow us to be more effective and efficient, "he said then.

The Mibam-removed in November 2011 - would be the lead agency and would be assigned in addition to the Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana, the project is still in the Iron and Steel Corporation, Aluminum Corporation of Venezuela and Corporacion Venezolana del Oro

"This proposal seeks to reengineer what there is to get financial resources other than oil profiteering, allowing reactivate this process (...) is a reengineering to reactivate basic industries thanks to the great demand that will involve the development of oil belt. "

Although Minister Ramirez gave no further details of the new Corporation, announced that PDVSA Industrial will be attached to this year and plans to produce four tons of gold. The blocks allocated to the entity would Guasipati-El Callao, Callao and South Sifontes.

Small-scale mining, meanwhile, have assigned sectors tin, New Heart, apañao and Bizkaitarra in Sifontes municipality.

Deficiencies continue
Venezuelan Mining Corporation would be the regent of gold industries south of Bolivar. The Minerven state-workers-would be considered the heart of the entity to which areas would be added before Rusoro operated by private and joint venture Venrus.

The former union leader Venrus, Exaviel Alexander, noted that companies continue to show weakness, since most of the inputs required are imported. Welcomed the minister's announcement Ramirez around the creation of the Corporation, under which he said would operate the gold industry as a whole.

"The creation of the Corporation to improve the sector with respect to the flow of resources, without investment not going to lift gold production. Workers are betting the lifting sector, we have shown that we intend to increase production and PDVSA will help us. "

He stressed that the desire for gold workers that the sector is becoming another source of funds to the country, "the gold industry has a very short-term rescue."

Advances timid
general secretary of the Union of Gold (Sinmioro), Elby Soto, said that in recent months have reached gold industry equipment and repairs have been made ​​to some mills.

"With all that we have not increased production. First they are doing required maintenance to boost production. "

He said that although the company is able to produce an average of 4,000 kilos of gold annually in 2012 ended with a record of 650 kilos of gold. "There are weaknesses but we have moved forward, but in how plants were not easy. In the middle of this year will see the results. "

He argued that from the point of view wage improvements are because in 2012 they approved an increase of Bs 60 per day in three parts, "then comes the discussion of the collective agreement and in six months we will rule all."

He noted that this week the company representatives will meet with officials of PDVSA.