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November 2007 ........the highlight in the article was from another post:



Small mining industry remains without fuel
Tuesday, November 06, 2007

So that the small miner can renew his fuel mobilization guide, he has to present the bill of the gold that obtained and he sold.

Isidro Casanova.

I laugh Cuyuni by where circulates part of the fuel of contraband that goes for the territory Esequibo and Guyana
Near the 80% of the small mining industry of the Southern municipalities, is remaining without fuel for their motors, due to the slowness in the execution of a census and because the beneficiaries have not reported to time, copies of the bills that identify the gold that produced and they sold, and to whom. To this respect, the engineer Raúl Urquía, manager of overseeing of Mibam has notified that the bill of the sale of gold is indispensable to offer or to renew quotas of fuel. It was reported that as near the 80% of the small mining industry is found illegal, because them have not been assigned officially its plots and other that have them do not they have all the permissions, they require special authorization of Mibam to acquire and to transport fuel to their mines that work low state of tolerance.



Leaders of the small mining industry and of the Southern Mining Unit continue maintaining the need that the gold-bearing activity of small and medium mining, be legalized to put an end to the fuel quotas problems. Pablo Zambrano, Antonio Review, José steep Slopes and other, maintain meetings with miners of the zone, to whom they assess about the steps that should give to obtain the permissions.

The justification of the guides of mobilization

The engineer Urquía has said that good part of the fuel that authorize for the small mining industry is utilized in other end, especially to remove it of contraband toward Brazil and Guyana, expressing that Al to be verified these problems, they have to submit to strict control, delivers it of new guides of mobilization. It said that has been verified that in the Southern municipalities, part of the fuel they utilize it in other end, inclusive to support Al drug trafficking.

In wait of the new Law of Mines

In turn, the representative of the Assembly National Angel Marcano, Mines Subcommittee president has said that the before Mines of new Law project, he is approved in 2ª discussion and he should enter the package Habilitante for his approval.

He emphasized the parliamentary one Marcano that the new Law should eliminate the state of mining concessions, substituting them for operating permissions, strategic alliances and other figures. It considered that the concessions only served so that the businessmen exploited Al mining, putting it to their service in exchange for nothing.

The route of Anacoco

Another source reported that in the port of San Martin of Turumbang, near the island of Anacoco, municipality Sifontes, flows a lot of fuel not permisado. A part of the fuel they transport it in curiaras by the river Cuyuni toward the territory Esequibo and Guyana, with balance of dead persons and injured because to the small embarkations they place them load above their capacity. It indicates the source that last week itself trasbucó a curiara that sailed in the territory Esequibo, with 40 drums of fuel, originating in some Southern municipality, being found a vanished miner.

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