At the time officials of two of the syndicates told this newspaper that the concern of the GGDMA (representing the bigger miners) was that an allocation policy that effectively made more lands available to small miners would effectively break the back of landlordism by reducing if not ending altogether the need for smaller miners to seek small parcels of land to rent from the bigger players. Several weeks ago, the age-old big miner/small miner schism surfaced again between representatives of the syndicates and officials of the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association. Some of the miners who enthusiastically embraced the syndicate idea, having seen it as the best opportunity to acquire land, albeit under a cooperative arrangement had literally closed down their small operations (some of them have remained closed for more than a year) waiting for the syndicates to materialise. It seemed at its inception, that the syndicate idea was intended as an initiative to reverse the notion that had become entrenched under the previous political administration that vast tracts of the gold-bearing lands in the country were controlled by a handful of individuals who were effectively functioning as landlords, renting modest portions to smaller, landless minders then promptly evicting them (at least so the story goes) once gold deposits were found. The mining sector is, to say the least, complex and when you listen to the syndicate members above the din of their complaints you come to understand that their concerns have to do, chiefly, though not exclusively, with what they believe is a prejudiced regimen that applies to the allocation of mining lands to syndicates and that that prejudice essentially maintains what they say is the ‘big miner’ status quo that applies in the sector. ![]() I have always been cordial and nice in my writings even when I have been inwardly a bit hot under the collar.Without venturing too deeply into what is known in Guyana as the ‘nitty gritty’ of what appears to be a surge of genuine anger by gold miners comprising the so-called gold mining syndicates, it is difficult to ignore what appears to be the dramatic – and, hopefully, temporary – turnaround in the fortunes of an initiative which, just a few months ago was being hailed as one of the more forward-looking implemented by the APNU-AFC administration in its quest to turn around the economic fortunes of ordinary Guyanese. Then the response turned into “I’ll look into it and get right back to you.” Now, I don’t even get the courtesy of a response to my emails. Several more emails and I was assured that my miner would be repaired and back online. A few weeks later it was back online for less than one day and hashing went to zero. Guess they pulled it didn’t bother to tell me? Sent yet another email and was informed my miner, still under warrantee, was sent off for repair. It was hashing down in the 50-60th range and after a few days hashing went to zero. Then it was off for a couple weeks and they offered a loaner. Each time I had to email them as they did not appear to be monitoring it. Then I noticed that my new miner that was rated at 72th was going down and down and occasionally going off-line. ![]() Bought a miner and hosting and would never have done business with them if I knew then what I know now.īought a miner and hosting from this company towards the end of 2021.
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