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Gold Board moves its headquarters to Queenstown
As of today, the Guyana Gold Board has found a new home.
The board will take its operations from where it had been housed on Brickdam, sharing a compound with the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), to Queenstown.
According to the board, the new location will be at Lot 133 Crown and Albert Streets, Queenstown.
“The Guyana Gold Board hereby informs all gold miners, licensed dealers and the general public that we will be relocating from the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) compound, Upper Brickdam, Georgetown, to Lot 133 Crown and Albert Streets, Queenstown, Georgetown effective Tuesday July 3rd, 2018,” the notice in Kaieteur News said yesterday.
The new Gold Board location in Queenstown
Gold Board said that its board and management fully understand that the public have been patient during the transition.
The property in Queenstown was a campaign office for the A Partnership For National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) coalition.
The Gold Board came under scrutiny this year after staffers of both that entity and GGMC showed evidence of high mercury content because of the burning of gold at the Brickdam compound. Since then, a number of staffers of both State agencies were sent on leave to take treatment, with unconfirmed reports of mercury-related deaths.
The Government stepped in, bringing in overseas experts to carry out tests.
Gold Board itself had temporarily started burning gold at the Bel Air operations of a dealer.
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