The holder of Mibam announced that with the constitution of the first socialist auriferous company, he is taking a new model of economic organization.

• Isidro Casanova

Leaders of the small mining of the municipalities of the South, have thought optimistic on the declarations of Rodolfo Sanz, minister of Basic Industries and Minería - Mibam- that the aim of the crisis of this sector has announced. This opinion is supported by the Commission from Mines of the National Assembly that announces the approval of a legal instrument to create a being that assumes the problem it solves and it.

Although there is no experience and the organisms of the State have not explained with details the reaches of the socialist auriferous company, leaders of this sector, see with good eyes the announced model.

Minister Sanz announced that with the constitution of the first socialist auriferous company of the South of the state Bolivar, he is taking a new model of economic organization who accentuates the integration of factors towards a field of social and socialist direction. When confirming the constitution of the socialist company that as well assumes the assets and rights of Hecla, North American company of capital that set off mine in the Camorra of Dorado and Chile of the Pebble, said that the capital of this new model shares 50-50, the Agapov Group and the Venezuelan State through National the Minera Company.

It excites the leadership of the small mining, the fact that minister Sanz, from the same moment that assumed its functions, is being dedicated to take care of the problems of this sector.

The environmental problem

Pablo Zambrano, Antonio Rivas and Dallys Figueroa, of the directory of the Mining Unit of the South, expressed that he is interesting that minister Sanz is personally, knowing the problems in each one of the places where they exist.

- The important thing that minister Sanz is knowing in the own land the problems the small mining, gives us right to think that there is to find some contradictores points in the official policy and the reality of the zone. The case occurs that the minister of the Atmosphere has decided that in Imataca the mining extraction is not possible because the environmental right is over other considerations. The minister has not had to send this decree - the declaring ones without making sure previously of the realities of the municipalities of the South say, especially the Gilded one, the Claritas, Kilometer 88 and neighboring sectors, which, traditionally have lived on the mining. The Claritas and Kilómetro 88, were born by the mine. Previous to the decree, the minister has had to indicate what to do with those populations whose half of life she is almost exclusively, the gold mine. We think that minister Sanz has to be abreast of this problem and, although the environmental matter is not to him of its competition, could arbitrate formulas to surpass this new crisis, created at this moment by the Ministry of the Atmosphere.

Proposal

Zambrano and Rivas consider that as much the Ministry of the Atmosphere as Mibam can assume joint decisions. With respect to projects Cristinas and Brisas, if they take into account the environmental forecasts that they have in his proposals, can well be developed those industries, which are committed to guarantee the environment. It must be taken into account in addition, that the mines of the Camorra that assumes the socialist company, also are in Imataca. The industrial mechanisms of environment rescue, can be applied, in, can well be applied other companies.

The Imataca case

- We must repeat what we have come saying that, for example, the projects of the Cristinas and Brisas of the Cuyuni, located in the Claritas, nothing were going to affect once they received the permissions, because the areas that want to work, already are affected

- If the minister of the Atmosphere had taken the annoyance to visit the zone and to investigate the system of life of the inhabitants of the Claritas and the Kilometer 88, she would have verified that those populations were born to the heat of the mine.

--When the minister argues that in Imataca the ecology cannot be affected to take step to the mining, must occur to account both that the areas occupied by great projects like the Cristinas and Brisas of the Cuyuni, they were affected more ago than 30 years. The starting of these two projects, does not have because to affect in anything. The affectation already took place and, in addition, the projects prehorseradish tree the preservation and rescues of the environment in the zone of work. That decision was taken from an office, behind the back of the reality. It is necessary to ask to him the minister, of what they are going to live the 10 thousand inhabitants on the parish San Isidro and 20 thousands of the Gilded one, where are the main auriferous deposits. The unique activity of those inhabitants, is the mining. The three towns were based to the heat of gold.

A facilitator

In this matter of investment and development it has been taking part the engineer Jose Manuel Rodriguez, one of the technicians and executives of the Agapov Group. Connoisseur as he is it of the matter, has said that the socialist company that it is starting, assumes the environmental and labor liabilities. In this aspect, the small miners add that being the same environmental matter who confront the Mine the Camorra in the Gilded one, in the Claritas and Kilómetro 88, a harmonization of the three cases because has to consider they are in identical conditions.