The imminent legitimate allocation on mining lands to groups comprising the newly-formed mining syndicates will represent “an historic landmark” for the sector and “step in the direction of fulfilling the government’s good life promise,” Minister in the Ministry of Natural Resources Simona Broomes has told the Stabroek Business.
“If you understand the culture of the gold mining industry, if you understand the divide between the big miners and those miners who, for years, have struggled to make ends meet, only then can you understand the real significance of mining syndicates,” Broomes said.
The comment came shortly after the release earlier this week of a media statement by the Ministry of Natural Resources in which Minister Raphael Trotman said that the creation of mining syndicates represented the pursuit of a
