Thousands of miners began to leave because the hollow ones already happen of 50 meters of depth.

• Isidro Casanova

What was a alluvium of gold, people and commerce, attracted by the racket Tin Leaf 2, located towards the island of Anacoco, Sifontes municipality, is disappearing because the easy gold, the one that was earth flower is finishing. The gold that is finds to profanidades superiors to the 50 meters to where the small miners cannot lower, because they need to resources and technology. A year approximately lasted the great movement, species of vortex, because whenever “a racket bursts”, goes much people and arises the total confusion.

In Tin Leaf, the miner, laboriously, investigated the Earth, removed gold and ran the voice, contentísimo, causing the arrival of more and more people until becoming that one a center of all type of activity, including the delinquency and prostitution.

Concentration of 10 thousand people

Underneath the trees and to a side of the highway that leaves from alcabala of White House between Tumeremo and the Gilded one, in the racket Tin Leaf, people went locating.

The section between White House and Tin Leaf are 36 kilometers, three of asphalt highway and the rest, sylvan way, always raising.

In the occasion when the racket was open pie - gold deposits, most preservative they calculated in more than 10 thousand people concentrated under the woods, removing material auriferous to grind, others transporting the material to process it in the Pebble and Gilded and the others, preparing and selling eaten.

The commerce with its trinkets went installing right in the middle of the greater concentration of people.

Until a line of transport of passengers it arose from means of that one uproar. Other calculations indicated that the gold production, in the date of greater concentration, surpassed the 10 kilos per day.

The concession Tin Leaf continues

Jesus Head, president of the mining cooperative Tin Hoja, whose copretty mining lot with the racket, expressed that the work of the cooperative continues.

Head took care to clarify, when “the racket burst”, that this was not in Tin Leaf but in another place.

It said that it had to clarify the problem because in the racket crimes and other acts of violence happened and it harmed the cooperative which was transacting financing for acquisition of quipos.

It let know Head that Ingeomín has given ample collaboration, realising explorations, which has allowed the information about the gold tenor of earth. It added that the earth are rich in gold and that they will work the vein, making clear that the racket never was in area of the cooperative.

They are the mills

The paralyzation of activities in Leaf of Broad cause problems collaterals, like is the important investments that miners and industrialists in facilities did of batteries of mills. Like initially, the mills installed in Gilded and the Pebble colapsaron by the enormous demand that was to grind auriferous material, were important investments in installing new equipment.

Since then, they installed more than 250 mills. In area of Tin Leaf they installed near 100 mills and the rest in neighboring zones. These facilities that consist each of powerful motor, crushing machine, hoses, corks or lagoons for water and others, are idle.

We are leaving

We talk with William Padilla, president of the Unique Power station Mining of the South - Cumis- and a veteran of rackets or “completed bullero”, as he himself defined itself, who was between first which they arrived and they discovered the racket.

In what level is at the moment the operation of the racket?

- It is arriving at his end. People are leaving. It is much gold, but she is down, in direction of the vein. We works abriendo hollow to extract material, but the hollows went away very deep, 40 and 50 meters. Already to 50 meters, the small miner cannot work. Down, after 50 meters, it is scarce oxygen and to remove the material to surface to process it, is very difficult. The gold that is down. No longer it is possible to remove it without mechanical equipment.