With an allotment of 109 properties, Baishanlin Director Chu Hongbo is the third largest holder of medium-scale mining permits in Guyana, according to a recent report that reviewed operations at the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) and described the allocations as “scandalous.”
The report also highlighted Baishanlin’s 72 mining claims, since the claim system was intended exclusively for Guyanese and it was never the intention of the Mining Act to allow non-Guyanese persons and corporations to operate in the small-scale or medium-scale mining systems. At the end of 2013,