{"id":22537,"date":"2024-09-05T17:59:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T17:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=22537"},"modified":"2024-09-05T18:00:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T18:00:31","slug":"ggmc-hosts-stakeholder-engagement-for-small-scale-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/ggmc-hosts-stakeholder-engagement-for-small-scale-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"GGMC Hosts Stakeholder Engagement for Small-Scale Miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Delicia Janneire<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) recently hosted a stakeholder engagement to discuss support for small-scale miners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting focused on the geomorphic analysis and auguring project near Iron Mountain, Central Guyana, which is a collaboration between GGMC and the United States Geological Survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project aims to assist small-scale miners by providing non-invasive exploration techniques to predict gold deposit sites more accurately. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior Geologist Javed Baksh highlighted the importance of public-private partnerships in advancing exploration methodologies and ensuring sustainability in small-scale mining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Daniels, Chairman of the Small Miners Association, expressed support for the initiative and pledged collaboration to help make the new methodologies a reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alluvial gold mining, which involves extracting gold from river sediments, is a common practice among small-scale miners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Delicia Janneire The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) recently hosted a stakeholder engagement to discuss support for small-scale miners. The meeting focused on the geomorphic analysis and auguring&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22563,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537\/revisions\/22563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}