Here are some old article on the Island of Anacoco that is currently being mined by 5-6 thousands small miners as seen in the news today:

July 2007

Guayana city Wednesday, 18 of 2007 July
Miners aspire that president Chávez knows his problems



Monday, 16 of 2007 July
They hope to be equipped with technology that is required to work in
the area of the mining
Isidro Casanova

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Antonio Rivas, Thelmo Fajardo and Jose Antonio Rivas Moreno,
directors of the Mining Unit of the South

The leadership of the small mining of the municipalities of the
South, protected in the Mining Unit of the South, anticipates to
reactivate several works, in the middle of the effort that make,
esperanzados which the president of the Hugo Chavez republic, knows
his main problems, as they are the real deficiency of parcels with
good auriferous tenor and titles to work the mining. Also they aspire
that technology and resources for the respective mining working are
equipped with. - If studied parcels are adjudged to us previously,
that report good auriferous tenor and sustentables titles are granted
to us, with them the miners we can ask for technology and deprived
financing, in case the State does not provide them. We want to ratify
that the small mining can subsist with the industry and any other
form of organization, only that we required titles nonlimited.
Our expositions are summarized - they say in the first draft of new
Law of Mines that was given to the National Assembly.
Pablo Zambrano, Thelmo Fajardo, Antonio Rivas, Jose Manuel Rivas
Moreno said and other that during the days that follow, are going to
deepen the expositions. They will maintain the conversations with
regional and national parliamentarians and have summoned II the
Mining Forum to be made in the Foundation the Salle, subcampus
Tumeremo. They aspire that this event he attends Jorge Rodriguez,
vice-president of Venezuela, along with minister of Basic Industries
and Minería, Jose Khan, the vice-minister Iván Hernandez, yes like
representatives of the Commission and Subcommission of Mines of the
National Assembly.
SENSITIVITY OF CIVIL EMPLOYEES
Meanwhile, Jose Vargas, president of the mining cooperative of the
Yaguarín sector, located in the route of Anacoco, when giving to know
several impasses with civil employees the Piar Mission, requested
that these concur to the work fronts and coexist with the miners the
time that is necessary to them, so that they can catch realities.
Although he said that the small miners base their hopes in the good
intentions that the doctor has Laura Paredes, director of Concessions
of Mibam, requested to the rest of the civil employees who sinceren
with the miners.
THE FORUM TO SAY IT EVERYTHING
On the other hand the organizers of II the Forum of the small mining,
expressed that the event will be propitious so that the officials
government who have reserves with respect to the work of the small
miners, expose them and the debate is opened. They express that the
firm and real regime of concessions for the industrial mining and
titles for the small mining, are expositions that are formulated.
They say that since there is a tendency in the high Government to end
the regime of concessions, the forum is propitious so that are
exposed the reasons, occasion in that the subject can be debated.
THE DEBATE FINISHED
On the other hand, Francisco Jiménez, president of the Commission of
Mines of the Legislative Council of Bolivar, expressed that the
public discussion of which must be the new Law of Mines, has
finished. Town by town, outdoors, the debates were opened and the
people who had objections or expositions, formulated them.
Ene effect, another consulted source, with respect to the regime of
auriferous concessions, informed that as much the mayoress Marlene
Vargas de Rivas, like the deputy Francisco Jiménez, is in favor of
which this figure stays. They consider that in the auriferous field
great investments are required, and these can them, to make national
and international private the company and that the resources of the
State, are destined to develop to ample programs of services public.
A great support comes
About commitments and supplies of national and regional organisms on
solutions of the main problems of the small miners, the mayoress
Marlene Vargas de Rivas, informed that a great act is pending to be
made in Kilometer 88, where minister into Basic Industries and
Minería, Jose Khan, will give important financings to make connected
activities of the mining. She specified that one is financings that
come like incentives for the small miners who, taking care of
indications environmental, solved to change of activities, for which
come the incentives.
He said that the National Executive, once president Hugo Chavez
decreed to Sifontes like municipality Mining, began to settle down
programs and to place resources to him. The delivery of the first
resources of this program was going to be given in last days, but the
collapse of the bridge of the Kavayape river, made pospone the
program, which will be able will be announced at any time