Las Cristinas authorization to affect natural resources to carry out exploration activities in the mining area denied!

CRYSTALLEX INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION has become aware that the Director General of the Administrative Office of Permits at the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources of Venezuela ('MinAmb') has issued a communication to the Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana ('CVG'), the owner of the Las Cristinas concessions, denying a request for the authorization to affect natural resources to carry out exploration activities in the mining area of Las Cristinas in Sifontes, Bolivar State.