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In 1904, Peters Mine was the first mine opened in Guyana. From 1904 to 1909, it produced 39,800 ounces of gold (approximately 0.8 oz. per ton of ore), and in 1915 to 1916 produced another 1,103 ounces. Surveys conducted by U.S. geologists were favorable, but the mine was abandoned largely due to its inaccessibility. [8]
It is also commonly referred to as alumina or aloxite [1] in the mining, ceramic and materials science communities. It is produced by the Bayer process from bauxite . Its most significant use is in the production of aluminium metal, although it is also used as an abrasive due to its hardness and as a refractory material due to its high melting ...
Guyana-born author Jan Carew's 1958 novel Black Midas involves a boy leaving his coastal village to become a pork-knocker. [12] Sheik Sadeek, a novelist and playwright, produced stories about Guyana's colonial era working class, [ 13 ] and often used pork-knockers as the subject of his works, including the play Porkknockers .
One of Guyana’s smallest Amerindian villages is waging a monumental battle that could decide the amount of control that thousands of indigenous people have over their land in remote parts of ...
With 215,000 square kilometres (83,000 sq mi), Guyana is the fourth-smallest country on mainland South America after Uruguay, Suriname and French Guiana. The main economic activities in Guyana are agriculture (production of rice and Demerara sugar ), bauxite mining, gold mining, timber, shrimp fishing and minerals.
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Issano is a village of Cuyuni-Mazaruni (Region 7), Guyana. It is located along the Mazaruni River, and is a hub for mining. In 2012, the population was 220. [2] Issano is a mostly Amerindian community. It has a primary school (Saint Martin's [3]), health centre [4] and airstrip (ICAO: SYIS [5]). [6]
Monkey Mountain, Guyana This page was last edited on 2 November 2019, at 05:10 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...