Sun & Sand Mining planning large scale gold mining

Sun & Sand Mining and Minerals Resource (UK) has submitted an application to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for an authorisation for large scale mining in the Cuyuni/Mazaruni.

An EPA notice in yesterday’s Stabroek News said that in keeping with its Act, an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is necessary and members of the public were being invited to tender questions they wanted answered in an EIA.

In 2014, the company had told Stabroek News of its interest in gold mining. An affiliate of the company was