La relance de l’extraction minière dans la Guyane vénézuélienne ?

Abstract

In the past decade, gold mining has developed on a large scale in the Bolivar State (Venezuela). The national government seeks to integrate the Guyana region into its “Strategic Plan of Joint Action for the Development of the Orinoco Belt and Mining Arc” (Ministerio, 2011). The project aims at developing, at the macro-regional level, a vast frontier, rich in energy resources (conventional and unconventional oil and gas) and mining on both sides of the Orinoco river. Gold mining causes environmental damage and human destruction. Governments try to control the evolution of the mining frontier.

Keywords

• frontier
• energy resources
• ore
• gold mining
• Guyana of Venezuela
• Bolivar State