Administrative Coordinator of the Guyana Geology & Mines Commission (GGMC) Mining School and Training Centre John Applewhite-Hercules believes that as public interest centres increasingly on building capacity in the industry the role of the school has become more important.
Beginning on October 22, the centre in collaboration with the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission, the Guyana Women Miners Organisation and the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association will be conducting a 10-day field course – Advanced Level Training for Prospectors – in the White Hole Mahdia area and surrounding mining locations.
In an extended interview on Wednesday, the coordinator of the mining school told this newspaper that the course has been designed to respond to several critical challenges confronting the sector’s small and medium scale miners including being able to predict and monitor the likelihood of mining pit collapses;
