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Venezuela pushes out small gold miners as Maduro

2022.9.12 There is no official government data, but the World Gold Council estimated Venezuela's 2021 gold mining production stood at just 35 tonnes. Most of this was from small "wildcat" miners, who...

Venezuelan Tainted Gold Human Rights Watch

2022.4.29 Venezuela has reserves of highly valued resources, including gold. Most gold mining in Venezuela’s southern states is illegal, and much of the gold is smuggled

Gold mining in Venezuela's Yapacana National Park is

December 6, 2022 at 9:47 a.m. EST 3D rendering using Planet imagery (Janice Kai Chen/The Washington Post) 5 min Unauthorized gold miners are illegally stripping the top of a sacred mountain in a...

Gold flows from Venezuela: supporting due diligence on the

2021.9.8 Gold flows within Venezuela can be categorized under two broad headings: centralised and dispersed. The centralised flows carry a portion of production from the

Brazilian gold miners get free rein in Venezuela’s

2023.4.11 In Southern Venezuela, Brazilian gold miners known as garimpeiros exploit Venezuelan Indigenous lands, leaving behind mass environmental destruction. Deforestation, sedimentation and

Venezuelan People and Forests Suffer as Gold Mining

2021.3.25 Venezuela’s rainforests and people have been hit particularly hard by gold mining, where estimates indicate that between 80% and 90% is mined illegally. Gold mining replaces oil industry, with

Treasury Sanctions Venezuela’s State Gold Mining Company and

2019.3.19 Treasury Sanctions Venezuela’s State Gold Mining Company and its President for Propping Up Illegitimate Maduro Regime. March 19, 2019. Washington –

Beneath The Surface of Illegal Gold Mining in the

2022.11.8 Like other local mining gangs, its modus operandi is based on the organization and “taxation” of illegal gold mining and processing. However, it is the only surviving mining gang in Bolívar that

Venezuela Security Policy: Illegal Mining and Deforestation

2023.7.5 Furthermore, Venezuela’s economic crisis and crippled oil industry have led to Maduro’s government becoming ever more reliant on exporting this gold to fund the state, despite US sanctions on the country’s gold industry. In fact, gold smuggling remains an effective way for Venezuelan actors to evade sanctions in dealings with other countries.

Claims, Conflict, and Capital Report: ILLEGAL GOLD MINING IN VENEZUELA

2021.12.13 Summary: While Venezuela’s political, economic, and humanitarian crises worsen, criminal gangs, Colombian guerrilla groups, and paramilitary groups compete for control of the country’s significant natural resources, most notably gold. Illegal gold mining will very likely harm the environment, drive human rights violations, and pose

Radical rentierism: gold mining, cryptocurrency and commodity ...

2019.7.2 Drawing on the case of Venezuela, I argue that the spread of small-scale, irregular and artisanal gold extraction and cryptocurrency mining is the result of the decaying rentier state in crisis ...

AP PHOTOS: A proliferation of gold mines in Venezuela offers

EL CALLAO, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela is known to have the world’s largest oil reserves, but its soil holds another valuable resource: gold. The government in 2016 established a huge mining development zone stretching across the middle of Venezuela to diversify its revenue.

Gold Flows from Venezuela

Orinoco Mining Arc (AMO) in the south of Venezuelagold mining has , expanded beyond the confines of the AMO. ... Venezuelan gold flows making it likely that international purchases of Venezuelan gold m– ay be contributing to abuses linked to Annex II risks.

Placer Gold and Diamond Mining in Venezuela

2015.6.29 The Rusoro Mining is a well-known gold mining company and producer located in the Bolivar State of southern Venezuela. It operates two mines, the Isidora mine and the Choco 10 mine (earlier operated by the Goldfields), both of which are located in the El Callao district of south-eastern Venezuela. Rusoro has a 95% share in the Choco 10

In Venezuela, Contraband Networks Supply Rampant Wildcat Mining

2023.10.13 by Venezuela Investigative Unit 6 Jul 2023. Contraband smuggling networks are supplying illegal miners in Yapacana. An entire contraband supply chain has sprung up to keep illegal mining functioning in Venezuela’s southern Yapacana National Park, providing more evidence of how the security forces will work with criminals they

Venezuela: UN report highlights criminal control of mining area,

2020.7.15 Criminal groups exercise control over a large number of mining operations there, where children as young as nine have been seen working, according to the report from Ms. Bachelet’s office, OHCHR.. This is despite the “considerable” presence of the Venezuelan military, whose commanders were allegedly paid off via a “system of

Gold mining in Venezuela's Yapacana National Park is destroying

2022.12.6 Venezuelan explorer Charles Brewer-Carías identified mining activity at the top of Cerro Yapacana in the 1980s. During that trip he photographed a Navia saxicola , a rare flowering plant.

Gold and mercury, not books, for Venezuela’s child miners

2023.9.20 Around 1,000 children work in illegal gold mining in Venezuela, a booming industry in the resource-rich country. Children work through the mud in search of gold in El Callao, Bolivar state, Venezuela.

A story of two fevers: when malaria is the price of gold

2022.1.14 The two ‘fevers’ are so tightly linked in this country, that researchers were able to develop a model to forecast malaria trends in Guyana based on the price of gold. This variable appeared to be the driving force behind a rise in malaria cases between 2008 and 2014, when high gold prices increased mining activity and motivated men ...

On the border of Colombia and Venezuela, illegal

2023.5.12 Several witnesses claimed that men from the Venezuelan National Guard collect a weekly “vaccine,” or bribe, in the form of gold and money. With this guarantee, mining continues without obstacles.

Gold and Grief in Venezuela’s Violent South Crisis Group

2019.2.28 Hide Footnote In El Callao, Venezuela’s historic mining town, an official working for state mining company Minerven admitted that the firm gets its gold from illegal mining projects, which are allegedly run by sindicatos. [fn] Crisis Group interviews, Minerven personnel, El Callao, October 2017.

Venezuelan Tainted Gold - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

2022.4.30 Venezuela has reserves of highly valued resources, including gold. Most gold mining in Venezuela’s southern states is illegal, and much of the gold is smuggled out of Venezuela and laundered ...

Gold and Chaos: Gang Lords Rule Venezuela's Orinoco Mining

2017.9.21 See original here. Martes is about 50, tan, gray-haired and wide-bellied. Just 5 feet 3 inches tall, he carries a gun strapped to his waist. And here in the gold mining town of Las Claritas, deep in Venezuela’s Orinoco Mining Arc, he’s an important man. All kinds of people queue outside Martes’ house and ask for his help.

Venezuela's gold linked with corruption and violence CNN

2019.8.20 Most of the country’s gold reserves are thought to lie in Orinoco Mining Arc, Bolivar state. It is a vast stretch of land, most of it jungle, that spans more than 40,000 square miles from Guyana ...

GameChangers 2019: Illegal Mining, Latin America’s Go-To

2020.1.20 At least 80 percent of Venezuela’s gold is illegally mined. The state gold company Minerven does little mining itself, but rather channels gold to the Venezuelan Central Bank (Banco Central de Venezuela – BCV) from the plethora of armed groups that control mining throughout the south of the country.

Venezuela: Mining, Minerals and Fuel Resources

2012.8.9 In recent years, Venezuela’s mining and fuel resource sectors have been significantly affected by high inflation and decreasing prices for natural resources. Metals. Metal mining is an important part of the Venezuelan economy and Venezuela has 32 goldfields. Gold production for 2017 was the lowest since 1997, at 480kg, decreasing

At Least 80 Tons of Gold Are Smuggled Out of Venezuela Each

2020.1.17 Thirty percent of Venezuela’s gold production is destined for contraband, according to data from the nongovernmental organization Transparencia Venezuela. During a speech at the headquarters of the think tank the Atlantic Council, experts warned about illegal mining activities, contraband, displacement, and violence taking place in