VHeadline Venezuela News reports: Small-scale gold miners from Villa Balazo in the Sifontes municipality of southern Bolivar State have applauded the fact that Basic Industries & Mining (Mibam) Minister Rodolfo Sanz personally visited the area, Tuesday, to hand over the keys to a poor family with nine children who were rendered homeless by a re-alignment of the La Comorra gold mine which is now the subject of a socialist-style 50/50 joint venture between the Russian Agapov group's Russoro Mining and the Venezuelan State through its Venezuelan Guayana Corporation (CVG) gold-mining subsidiary, CVG-Minerven.According to today's issue of the local newspaper Correo del Coroni, Sanz will be in the area again today with President Hugo Chavez Frias to hand out amounts ranging from Bs.F 10,000 (US$4,657) to Bs.F 15,000 ($6,985) in compensation to injured miners while some organized labor union members will each receive Bs.F 40,000 ($18,628) as per an agreement reached with government representatives.
President Chavez visit and the attendant ceremonials will be featured live on national television today -- it had originally been planned that he should have visited El Callao yesterday (Tuesday) but the trip had had to be delayed because of other urgent business in Caracas.
During Tuesday's presentations, Mibam Minister Sanz delivered payments to a number of workers in El Callao including a donation of two chain saws and further announced the approval of some nineteen projects, mostly in non-mining activities linked to agriculture and livestock, financed by the state-operated BANDES regional fund.
Sanz told reporters that "we are under instructions from the President for the opening of the La Camorra and the Isidora mines which were previously operated by Hecla but which have now passed into the hands of the Venezuelan State. The President was to have been here with us yesterday but he will be with us on Wednesday morning and he wants to talk with everyone ... it will be an extremely important event!"
"As has already been officially published under a reorganization of national territory, we will regain control of all our mineral resources ... we will exercise our sovereignty over it and we will exploit our mineral resources, establish regulations and see to it that justice done above all."
As for the diamond-rich Guaniamo mining area to the west of Bolivar state, Sanz explained that the reprocessing of material from various gold mines will give employment to residents in nearby areas ... "job opportunities will be provided for those who have lived here for many years and have enjoyed so very little of the region's wealth ... some may say that I am raising false expectations, and that I come only to campaign politics ... but I am not a candidate for anything, I'm simply one of President Chavez' political operators ... a single soldier of the people."
Mibam Minister Rodolfo Sanz says that La Paragua is next on his list of places to visit and he has already pledged to pay long overdue credits from the regional conversion program two years back ... there will also be a similar event in El Manteco to settle these old debts once and for all!
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