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Guyana moves to improve sanitation at hinterland mining camps

Jan 21, 2010 News

The Guyana Environmental Capacity Development mining assistance programme (GENCAPD)  is working  in collaboration with the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC)  and the Ministry of Health to improve sanitation around gold and diamond mining camps countrywide.
The programme is being undertaken at a cost of C’dn$3 million.
GENCAPD has advertised for bids to construct and install two dry and two flush latrines that could serve as model units  for  miners.
The units will set the minimum standards to be achieved by mining operations in terms of Camp  sanitation and environmental health, a source at GENCAPD disclosed.
They are to be promoted in  “best practices” recommendations in this area of daily life within the gold and diamond mines countrywide. The latrines are to be on display in Region One (Barima/Waini) and Region Eight (Potaro/Siparuni). According to the advertisement the contractors must fashion them from materials, which are available within the Regions and at a cost that miners can afford.
The closing date for bids is February 5, next.
The mining camps sanitation project is one of a number of projects being undertaken by GENCAPD on behalf of the GGMC and the Ministry of Heath.
Others include a Dry Mining and Tailings Management pilot project, reforestation of mined out areas, a feasibility  study on use of  cyanide for processing of gold by small and medium scale miners, a programme for reduction of malaria using some forms of bacteria, several small grants projects, and trapping and export of ornamental fish as an alternative or complementary economic activity to mining, to name a few.
The  GENCAPD /Canadian mining assistance programme  to Guyana started in April 2007 and should end in September..

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