Jhon Log, president of the Mining Independent Institute nonMetálico of the state Bolivar, expressed that the industrial process that is in march, has the opportunity to take advantage of the potential the country

Isidro Casanova

Ing. Jhon Log, president of the Institute Minas Bolivar, in its intervention before the directory of Fedecámaras Bolivar.

It expressed that the industrial process that is in march in the country, has the opportunity to take advantage of the potential mentioned one. Between the programs that are to take advantage of minerals nonmetalists, one is the Railway Plan, construction of houses and others. Until now, the used materials more are the perforated stone and the granite, that have good demand in the industry of the construction

Log considers that good part of the materials nonmetalists of Bolivar, could go to a process of massive transformation, because until now it is little the advantage. Most usual it is the transformation of materials to produce the calls tops of kitchen and effects of marble work. It said that the promotion of this type of mineral is giving good results, inasmuch as there are three companies have made specific the installation in the zone, for the transformation from minerals.

The Russian Kaolin investment

Another source informed that the Russian group that conforms the Ruscaolín company, when buying the company of the kaolin that was in Kilometer 88, took samples of kaolin to analyze them in a university of Moscow, where detected that the tenor of this material, is upper of the world. This detail motivated Vladimir Agapov, president of Ruscaolín to design an important investment in the state Bolivar. One inquired in addition which the Agapov group, of the same organization, has important investments in gold mines in the municipalities of the South, being a strategic partner to the new investments for the operation of the auriferous reserves of CVG Minerven of the Callao.

Advantage of kaolin

Within the inventory that Jhon Log made of main minerals metalists who conform the deposits of Bolivar, did not mention the kaolin whose deposits have been located towards the south of the Sifontes municipality.

- We are to the delay of environmental permissions for the affectation, on the part of the Ruscaolín company, of an important area in Kilometer 88, where it will be installed a plant of operation and refinement, along with the installation of another plant in Puerto Ordaz, that will be in charge of the ceramic product transformation. This one plan they will leave other products like painting, a derivative for the paper pulp production and others.

- An important kaolin operation Will have - it said Log-of reserves proven by the order of 10 millardos of tons. The advantage will be of 500 thousand tons per year. The production will go to the national consumption and the others for export. 80% of the kaolin that is consumed in Venezuela, are concerned.