Secrecy shrouds new gold mining deal in Guyana’s Marudi mountains

Mongabay
Dec 22, 2021, 11:00 am218 pts
SOUTH RUPUNUNI, Guyana — In a Facebook post this past November, Guyana’s Ministry of Natural Resources announced that it had issued a special mining permit to a group of small-scale miners, the Rupununi Mining Association, for 400 hectares (1,000 acres) of land in a mountain range in the country’s…

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