Gold Mining
Gold mining is relatively unregulated by the government. Suriname has attracted the attention of international companies in gold exploration and exploitation. Companies present include Blue Ribbon Resources Ltd, Cambior, Canarc Resource Corporation, IAMGOLD, Golden Star Resources Ltd.
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“All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)