Venezuela: Venezuela's Mining Arc: A Legal Veneer for Armed Groups to Plunder

Jun 8, 2019 | Bram Ebus, Guardian
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Venezuela claims to possess some of the largest untapped gold and coltan reserves in the world, and the country’s gold rush picked up when the president decreed the creation of a massive area of 112,000 sq km destined for mining, known as the Orinoco mining arc. In a recently published development plan Venezuela set the goal to produce more than 80,ooo kilos of gold a year by 2025.