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This Omai Gold Mines profile is part of a paid investor education campaign.* Overview Base and precious metals mining make up a significant portion of Guyana’s economy. The country’s mineral heritage not only includes high-quality copper, iron and nickel occurrences but well-known deposits of gold, bauxite and diamonds. Leveraging Guyana’s pro-mining government and the country’s stable Mining Act, resource companies operating in the country could offer investors significant returns. In 2019, the country declared the production of 634,905 ounces of gold, up slightly from its 2018 outpu...

Venezuela's border dispute with Guyana just got even testier Jacqueline Charles, The Miami Herald Jan. 28—A longstanding, high-stakes border dispute between Guyana and Venezuela has gotten even testier, with the United States and the Organization of American States stepping into the fray. OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro is condemning what he calls the illegal detention of two Guyanese-registered fishing vessels and their crew by "the Venezuelan dictatorship" in Guyana's exclusive economic zone. "The General Secretariat demands that the Guyanese citizens are released promp...

Premium Content Is Maduro Trying To Steal Guyana’s Oil Riches? By Matthew Smith - Jan 27, 2021, 11:15 AM CST For roughly two decades since Hugo Chavez won the Venezuelan presidency and commenced his socialist Bolivarian revolution, the country, which was once Latin America’s largest oil exporter, is now a destabilizing force in the region. That has only intensified in recent years under the leadership of Chavez’s successor Nicolas Maduro with a near-bankrupt Caracas, under considerable pressure from a prolonged oil price slump, crumbling energy infrastructure, and strict U.S....

Will Venezuela Go To War Over Oil? January 2021 is still far from over yet the pages of Oilprice already boast 6 articles about Guyana being the hottest drilling spot in the world. This is hardly surprising, considering the hot streak that ExxonMobil had over the past 5 years, with new companies coming in and stepping up the drilling game. The interest globally attributed to Guyana has aggravated Venezuela’s long-standing grievances over the disputed Essequibo province – before 2015 the Venezuela vs Guyana oil standoff was akin to a David vs Goliath story but now, with Guyana ...

Will Venezuela Go To War Over Oil? By Viktor Katona - Jan 23, 2021, 6:00 PM CST January 2021 is still far from over yet the pages of Oilprice already boast 6 articles about Guyana being the hottest drilling spot in the world. This is hardly surprising, considering the hot streak that ExxonMobil had over the past 5 years, with new companies coming in and stepping up the drilling game. The interest globally attributed to Guyana has aggravated Venezuela’s long-standing grievances over the disputed Essequibo province – before 2015 the Venezuela vs Guyana oil standoff was akin to a ...