Category Archives: Mining

GUYANA: Int’l study exposes worrying levels of mercury poisoning in South Rupununi Region

09/15/2021 – 12:10 am

Gold Mining – Guyana

By Kiana Wilburg

Sep 12, 2021 –  Kaieteur News – In recognition of the oftentimes irreversible effects of methylmercury, the Government of Guyana, almost eight years ago, signed onto and ratified the Minamata Convention. That international treaty is designed to protect human life as well as the environment from the release of methylmercury and its compounds during gold mining activities.

In fact, the PPP/C and APNU+AFC had made pledges and implemented several initiatives since 2013 to phase out the use of methylmercury, one of the most toxic forms of mercury that is used in the gold sector particularly by artisanal and small miners. In spite of their best efforts to mitigate the effects or impacts of this chemical on human life and the environment, studies over the years have uncovered alarming levels of mercury poisoning/contamination in Indigenous people and their environs which are in proximity to mining camps that make use of the harmful chemical.            Continue reading →

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GUYANA: President Ali removes Haitians from list of visa-free nations

06/25/2021 – 12:09 am

Posted by: Denis Chabrol in Demerara Waves – Thursday, 24 June 2021 

Haitians and Cubans in Bon Fim. Brazil – arrested by Federal Police (file photo)

President Irfaan Ali has withdrawn the automatic six-month stay of Haitians on arrival in Guyana, now resulting in nationals of that former sister-Caribbean Community (CARICOM) having to get visas here.

The order, which  is dated June 22, 2021 and signed by President Irfaan Ali, removes Haitians from the list of nationals who can enter this country without visas. His order revokes the Immigration Order 2019 is revoked.    Continue reading →

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GUYANA: BAUXITE: RUSAL – A Poisoned chalice? – Commentary

06/16/2021 – 12:15 am

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GOLD MINING: Secret contract…Govt. /Aurora tied to secrecy + Massive Concessions

05/25/2021 – 12:06 am

An aerial view of the Aurora Gold Mines operation

May 23, 2021 – Kaieteur News – The contract that was signed in 2011 between Canadian company Guyana Goldfields Limited and the Guyana government provides that all information and data to be had, in pursuit of the project, would be jointly owned by the parties and would be kept confidential.

This provision not only obtains during the life of the agreement and mines operations, but would hold effect for up to two years after the end of its time in Guyana under the agreement.    Continue reading →

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OPINION: Healing Guyana’s Socio-Political and Economic Ills – Part 2 of 2

03/17/2021 – 12:25 am
 Written by Wilberne Persaud – wiredja.com

 MIAMI,  Florida, March 10, 2021 – Guyana’s 78.3 thousand population occupies a land mass of 83,000 sq ml, compared to Singapore’s 279.6 sq ml with 5.7 million population and England’s 50,301 sq ml with population 56.3 million.

Respectively, 2019 GDP numbers in current US dollars are: $5.1 billion; $372 billion and $2.8 trillion.* Consider the charts below. Singapore almost disappears in the size category. Guyana actually does in GDP (income) category — too small for scale!        Continue reading →

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GUYANA: Canadian company finds high-grade gold in Toroparu mine

02/25/2021 – 12:10 am
The Toroparu project – launches phase 2 drilling project

Gold X Mining, a Canada-based company which operates the Toroparu mine in Guyana, has announced that it found high-grade gold during its recently concluded diamond drill programme, resulting in the company launching phase two of its drilling.

In a statement on February 23, the company was able to use historical drill data to encounter “significant” gold concentrations within and below the Toroparu main resource pit. According to the company, these gold structures are likely to be accessed by shallow and underground mining.      Continue reading →

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GUYANA: Small and medium scale miners rake in US$808M in export earnings – GGDMA

02/07/2021 – 12:09 am

Kaieteur News – Guyana’s small and medium scale miners have accounted for more than 80% of the country’s gold production for 2020, raking in approximately US$808,587,118 in export earnings.

The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) in a congratulatory statement outlined that the small and medium scale miners achieved a production of 485,552 ounces of gold for 2020.        Continue reading →

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TED Video: The Utilization of Western NGOs for the Theft of Africa’s Vast Resources

02/03/2021 – 12:03 am

The Utilization of Western NGOs for the Theft of Africa’s Vast Resources

TED-x- Berlin – Excerpt from Talk by Mallence Bart Williams

The following in an excerpt from a lecture given by Mallence Bart Williams in 2015 (TEDxBerlin). “One thing that keeps me puzzled, despite having studied finance and economics at the world’s best universities, the following question remains unanswered. Why is it that 5,000 units of our currency is worth one unit of your currency where we are the ones with the actual gold reserves?  It’s quite evident that the aid is in fact not coming from the West to Africa but from Africa to the Western world.          Continue reading →
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Guyana: Mining: Omai finds high-grade gold underground – in abandoned pit

12/17/2020 – 12:09 am
  — To launch drilling campaign next year

December 16, 2020 – – INews Guyana

OMAI Gold Mines. Guyana

Omai Gold Mines Limited (OGML), which returned to the Wenot and Fennell pits at the Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) site earlier this year after leaving Guyana in 2015, will soon be pressing forward with a 5,000-meter drilling programme after finding gold 150 meters below the depth at which the pit was previously mined.

The promising findings emanate from assays done on untested cores from a 2012 drilling programme that were preserved by the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC).      Continue reading →

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GUYANA: Gold Mining: Mercury- The toxic metal in the shadow of the gold industry

10/09/2020 – 12:11 am

Guyana Gold routes -click to enlarge

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This story has been published as part of “Mercury”, a project led by InfoAmazonia in partnership with Stabroek News and outlets from several countries, including TV Globo (Brazil) and Armando Info (Venezuela). The entire production was supported by the Rainforest Journalism Fund of the Pulitzer Center and the IUCN National Committee of The Netherlands. To learn more, please visit: https://mercurio.infoamazonia.org/en

By Bram Ebus and GI Sutherland

It’s late in Corriverton, a small village on the western bank of the Corentyne River, the waterway that separates Guyana from Suriname. But a few local boatmen, who shuttle people and contraband across the river, are still hanging around in front of the village brothel, drinking beers and smoking weed while chatting with the sex workers who’ve come out for the night. Most of the women are Venezuelan refugees who fled the crisis in their home country or were trafficked abroad.

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