3-4 stories about small mining in el diario today. most of it was typical socialist bs about the importance of "small scale miners" blah blah....but i found this part interesting.

khan and herrera seem to be working together. in the past herrera has tried to undermine mibam by trying to take LC and other areas for his own little small scale mining union.....it looks like one of the places to relocate small scale miners is to give them a "open pit" area in the tomi concession.....

The Pebble. - The Agrominera cooperatives 2,004 RL and the Llaneros of Prairie BO 2 RL, informed to the public opinion that have subscribed a contract of technical and productive cooperation to operate a sector of the mining area of the Tomi concession, by means of a known open-cast pilot project like “Green Gold”, to begin in the next days. The contract has like principles fundamental the one to elevate the national auriferous production, to promote the direct and indirect use of the local human resource, to promote the national economic development, to contribute with the national state treasury, to impel the cooperation on the basis of the equality principles and mutual benefit and to exert the total exercise of the sovereignty on our natural resources in fulfillment with the national plan Simon Bolivar and Socialist the Guayana plan

We want therefore to thank for to minister Jose Khan and the president of CVG-Minerven, Luis Herrera, this opportunity offers that us to impel a pilot project of open-cast operation in the area referred in correspondence with the declared Year of Gold 2,010, decreed by the national government and in Central bank of Venezuela”, they emphasized Eduardo Corners and Márquez Youngest child.