GEORGETOWN: Guyana’s new president has ordered an investigation into a recent series of gold mining accidents that have resulted in at least 11 deaths.
David Granger says engineers and representatives of a miners’ association will be part of a team that will look at how those and other mines have been designed.
At least 10 miners died last month in a camp near the border with Venezuela when the adjacent open-pit gold mine collapsed and buried them. Another miner died in an open-pit mine last week. Officials have said that heavy rains have weakened mines.
Granger said in a statement that he expects recommendations to help reduce the number of deaths will be issued by the end of July.
