Congo’s South Kivu governor suspends mining operations in province
The decision will hit artisanal miners of metals such as gold and tin hard, as they are the region's dominant producers.
Eighteen people have been killed in Venezuela at an illegal gold mine following clashes with security forces.
On Sunday Associated Press reported that there was a confrontation in Bolivar state between an armed gang that was threatening wildcat miners. The army then travelled to the Cicapra mine to try and control the area. No soldiers were among the dead.
AP stated:
It was the most violent incident at a mine in Bolivar state since the bodies of 17 wildcat miners were found in a mass grave in 2016 after allegedly being killed by a criminal gang.
Violence has been on the rise in Bolivar as Venezuela’s cash-strapped government looks to open the resource-rich area to foreign investment amid an ongoing turf war in the lawless area between criminal gangs and the military.
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Hugo Chavez
This is the workers paradise of the Bolivarian republic. Viva Chavez. Viva!
esqualido
“Violence has been on the rise in Bolivar as Venezuela’s cash-strapped government looks to open the resource-rich area to foreign investment.”
After the Crystallex debacle, Maduro would have to ransom his entire family before anyone would touch the place- talk about killing the golden goose before it even laid its first egg.