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COVER

Opportunity found in
South America’s

forgotten gold province

When walking through the thick The country borders large gold Guyana, though, has failed to entice
jungle of north-west Guyana it producers in Suriname and Ven- gold explorers in the same way and cur-
is hard not to conclude that, from a ezuela and the geology of the region rently boasts just two commercial-scale
gold exploration perspective at least, shares similarities to West Africa, mines – Aurora and Karouni – both of
the country is truly a “Lost World”. which has undergone the most in- which opened in the last three years.
tense gold exploration push on the
planet over the last 15 years. Even politically and culturally, Guyana
appears detached from the rest of the

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