Mining
In the mining sector they have programmed projects - not specified to reach levels of production of 4,400 kilograms of gold on the part of CVG General Company of Mining of Venezuela, C.A (Minerven). In addition, resources are budgeted “to adapt the processes of mine and plants, developing programs of new environmental techniques, that allow to conduct the operations with clean technologies in the small and great mining; also, one has anticipated the accomplishment of topography studies, explorations and evaluations of reserves, to determine possible mineral deposits, in the states: Bolivar, Worries, Falcon, Guárico and Táchira”.

Mining control

The project of Law of Budget 2009 establishes the clear roll controller who will have the Mibam on the mining activity, in order to quantify statistical the real data of minerals nonmetalists which they are operated and they produced in the country, as well as, “to exert control on the tributes that burden to this activity”.

The office will look for to rescue the mining activity through already raised ordering plans that will define the zones of operation of gold and precious stones.

As one announced previously, the State reiterates the decision of not granting concessions to companies public or deprived to operate gold of the Forest Reserve of Imataca.

“Although this action will have like effect a diminution in the collection by tax of operation of gold, on a par it will bring with himself benefits from the environmental point of view”, specific the text, that ratifies the commitment of the Government with the certification by means of the Kimberly process.

In relation to the sector, strategies will be designed to regulate it, “oriented to the execution of measures related to their mission of planning and control of the activity, under criteria of rationality and viability”.

The budget contemplates to implement a program of formation, investigation, technological development and “system of industrial technical monitoring” in mining the basic companies and, “in order to obtain a flow of organized, articulated information and of systemic character related to the technological potentialities in investigation and investment”.

Also, they hope to automate the processes of the area of mining rights to object to optimize the answers to requests of authorizations of small mining, registries of gold retailers and diamonds; as well as, to the digitalization of the cartographic base of the state Bolivar.