Ninety-four foreign miners – many of them Brazilians – were snared in a recent crackdown by the government against illegal mining which apparently led to a high-level delegation from Brazil’s state of Roraima seeking clarifications from Georgetown.
For years illegal Brazilian miners – garimpeiros – have been a problem in the mining hinterland and the situation has been exacerbated over the last few years with the dizzying climb in the price of gold.
A release from the Government Information Agency this afternoon said that `Operation El Dorado’ was carried out
