The frequency of mining accidents that often result in loss of life in the gold mining sector is an extension of a “long-standing pattern of lawlessness and indifference to the value of human life” that obtains in the gold-mining industry, a source close the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has told Stabroek Business.
“The bottom line is that where the priority concern is with gold-recovery… the safety of lives and about doing things properly