GUYANA | FACT FINDING TEAM TO INVESTIGATE RIVER POLLUTION FROM GOLD MINING

According to the Ministry the team comprising officers of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) and the Ministry’s Compliance Division will head to Puruni and Mazaruni in a matter of days with a view to ascertaining the severity of the impact and the accuracy of the reports and putting in place urgent corrective measures.

“The Puruni is a ruinous mess of tailings and devastation along miles of the river’s course, unnavigable for large stretches; Guyanese gold-mining effluent in the Cuyuni, added to that coming from Venezuela, spews poisoned  yellow effluent into the Essequibo at Bartica in such volume as to discolour large stretches of  this ‘mighty’ river’s Western shores, the Ministry said in a release.

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