Venezuelan gov’t squeezing out small gold miners in favour of big companies

Venezuela’s numerous artisanal miners in the country’s El Callao mining region are coming under increasing pressure from the political administration in Caracas which, reportedly, has been ‘cutting’ deals with bigger gold mining operations that allow for a larger share of the returns from those operations to accrue to the government but progressively reduce the earnings of the small miners.

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