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Plugging the gold smuggling hemorrhage
Dear Editor,
I have been following Guyana’s gold production since my foray into the Mazaruni in August 1974. It’s inconceivable that over the past five years for gold production to be falling at a time when the price of gold has been breaking all records!
I have a 9-point plan to plug the gold loss/smuggling haemorrhage, as follows:
- Visit each gold camp for a week under the guise of rendering gold-recovery support to establishing true production. This will be compared with declared production.
- Encourage the miners to declare true production. Such figures can be used to obtain a loan from the lending agencies. This will form the basis of an annual gold production certificate.
- Stimulate the miners to declare true production/sales as this will be the modus operandi of a possible sale, or merger. The formula being: value of asset = 3 x annual sales
- Check on workers who suddenly take a day’s leave and stay in camp. Are they taking a laxative while in camp? Some workers have been known to swallow nuggets while diving!
- Can the mine afford a body scanner? It can be used to scan each worker leaving the production area.
- Ban the flight of drones over the mining areas apart from those on medical missions and forestry surveillance duties.
- All motor vehicles must be thoroughly searched at the borders. Examination ramps must be constructed at such borders to check vehicles for false bottoms.
- Body scanners must be installed at all borders.
- A mining camp should be a restricted area. Entry of outsiders should be prohibited, unless by prior arrangement. By corollary, employed miners should be debarred from leaving the camp between the hours of 18:00 and 06:00. Such curfew should be rigorously enforced.
Please use your esteemed publication to inform your readers.
Yours sincerely,
Ken Seecharran
Consulting Mining Engineer
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As a mining engineer myself, this is the funniest proposal I have ever heard! Sale this to someone in politics, this will bury you in the bush. OR you can take your 2 penny weights of gold and move on down the river.