Head of the World Wildlife Fund secretariat in Guyana (WWF) Dr Patrick Williams has said that the international environmental body is prepared to support a visit to Jamaica by local gold mining officials to examine the laws, codes and practices there associated with the restoration of mined areas.
The WWF offer came following the presentation to the opening of this week’s Guianas gold mining sector workshop by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds in which he alluded to possible lessons that the local gold mining sector could learn from Jamaica’s approach to backfilling mined-out bauxite areas.
