The cumulative negative effects of the increasing scale and intensity of the largely unregulated, and technically crude and polluting gold mining on the interior rivers and lands, are disproportionately borne by Amerindian communities who are the majority settled populations of the interior Regions of Guyana. Gold is a non-renewable resource: after a vein is exhausted, the miner dismantles his or her operation, and moves on. However, the hapless Amerindian community in or downriver of that operation has to continue to subsist in the midst of polluted rivers and torn-up river banks, any fish remaining being mercury-contaminated, local extinction of game species, and a host of social ills.
http://www.stabroeknews.com/2013/features/02/04/the-protection-for-amerindian-rights-in-the-laws-of-guyana/
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