Final jigsaw puzzle piece ... absolutely NOTHING further needed towards the issuance of Las Cristinas EIS permit

VHeadline editor & publisher Roy S. Carson writes: While foreign investors in Venezuela's gold mining industry are waiting with bated breath for the next installment of the Las Cristinas Saga, a top official has told VHeadline that it is impossible to give a time frame for the completion of their every dream since the final step ... the issuance of the final EIS permit to mine for gold at Las Cristinas ... is "a hitherto unestablished procedure."

Without admitting that Venezuela's Environment Ministry (MinAmb) if effectively "inventing" procedures from the ground up, having thrown previous manuals out the window, our top level source says "the permit could be issued at any time ... it could be today, tomorrow, next week or a few weeks time!"

What is clear is that last week's declaration by MinAmb's vice minister Merly Garcia that Las Cristinas contract operator, Crystallex International had satisfied all points in fresh negotiations after a mid-May instruction from the President to side-step renegade MinAmb Minister Yubiri Ortega de Carrizales' ill-thought-out edict effectively paralyzing all forms of mining in Venezuela, MinAmb officials have been working feverishly to work out a solution which will save Ortega de Carrizales' face (she is after all the Vice President's wife!) yet permit industrial gold mining to at least attempt to cure years of environmental damage caused by uncontrolled 'garimpiero' (illegal) and small-scale and artesanal gold mining in the south of Bolivar State close to Venezuela's borders with Guyana and Brazil.

Over the last several years, Environment Ministry technical experts and environmentalists have been at pains to protect Venezuela's sensitive Rainforest environment while protecting the interests of indigenous rain forest indian tribes and incredibly poor sectors of the local population who have traditionally focused on extracting gold and previous stones ... trouble is that they uncontrollably continue to use mercury and other catalysts which pollute the land and poison river sources throughout the Venezuelan Guayana region.

"Last week's declaration by the Environment Ministry with regard to terms and conditions that have satisfactorily been fulfilled by Crystallex International is the final jigsaw piece in the puzzle ... there is absolutely NOTHING further needed towards the issuance of the EIS permit ... it could be issued at any minute. but you have to remember that we are in Venezuela and everything now rests in the hands of the Ministry to simply sign off on the permit and allow work to begin at Las Cristinas!"

Roy S. Carson
vheadline@gmail.com

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