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Carson: But there were many problems with other companies, like Gold Reserve, Crystallex ... what do you know about that?

Montiel: Well, the information that I have about Crystallex is that it is a Canadian company that had that (problem) and didn't want to start the projects because of (ungranted) environmental permits ... but now I think I heard the MIBAM minister (saying) that a Russian company will come to work on the Crystallex fields, now, under the surveillance of the government the permits are produced faster. The place where we need to speed up permits is the area where there's the largest quantity of gold mineral, which is the one where Crystallex was. So, for the growth of the municipality and the Bolivar state, we need those permits soon.

Carson: But, isn't it a legal problem to take those contracts from Crystallex and grant them to Rusoro?

Montiel: No, I don't think so, they had plenty of time, they (Crystallex) were in the Stock Exchange, they were in fact waiting for the shares to increase their market value and never worried to get the permits legally. And meanwhile the illegal miners were working ... they had small pumps ... and there were problems with Crystallex because they were on private land and the private concessions must be respected.

Carson: And what about those others at Las Brisas?

Montiel: Brisas del Cuyuni is the same problem, they have a problem because it's divided by a river, a river flows through it, so they wanted to channel the river somewhere else ... then the government (denied the permits) because of the environmental problem. But I think that the problem at Las Brisas is about to be solved.