More medium scale mining concessions under threat of cancellation

Dec 15, 2019 News

– As GGMC amnesty periods draws to a close

With the amnesty period for medium scale miners set by the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) coming to close, head of the Commission, Newell Dennison, has warned there will be more cancellation of concessions if miners fail to pay up by the end of December.
Dennison told Kaieteur News that the response to amnesty set by GGMC is less than expected.
So those in fault are likely to lose the concessions if they fail to pay. The concessions will most likely end up on the public domain and gazetted for other persons to secure.
Just last month the GGMC, through an order by Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman, cancelled 24 medium scale mining concessions due to outstanding rental fee payments.
The Prospecting Permit Medium Scale (PPMS) Exemption Order, was published in The Official Gazette on October 5, 2019. The Order came into effect on September 15 last.
With respect to the 24 concessions cancelled, the Order states that they will be reserved for disposal by the bidding and lottery processes. Further, those miners/companies listed as defaulters are Metallica CC (Guyana) Inc.; Wyette Amsterdam; Carl Baldie & Stephen Edwards; Troy Broomes & Searomance Parasram trading in the name of Central Mahdia Mining Association; Michael Daniels; Erlene Francis; Dana Maria Jones, Youlanda Charles & Marvin Layne trading in the name of LCJ Ikeraku Mining Syndicate; Dalgleish Joseph & Deon Stoll; and Qukice Nelson.
In an advertisement published in Kaieteur News by GGMC Commissioner Newell Dennison, the mining authority has called on current medium scale concession holders who still owe the Commission to make their payments with haste, noting that it has already made numerous requests for the payments to be settled.
The GGMC has provided a grace period that commenced October 1, 2019 for all medium scale property holders who are in arrears and whose properties have not already been published as cancelled in The Official Gazette.
It noted that the grace period ending December 31, 2019 will not be extended. All other property holders who fail to complete their payments by that date, the ad states, will have their properties cancelled.
Following repeated requests for interventions by the Minister of Natural Resources for relief to miners, the Ministry of Natural Resources says it has directed the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) to grant a final amnesty for miners who are in arrears in terms of payment of rental for medium scale properties.

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