MINING Week 2014, which celebrates the mining sector, officially gets off the ground Saturday with a Day of Sports at the Mahdia Community Centre in Region 8 (Potaro/Siparuni).

A Day of Sports will also be held at Port Kaituma in Region One (Barima/Waini) on August 27, and the theme for this year’s activities is: “Improved recovery; reducing impact; securing the future of mining”.

One of the highlights this year will be a tour of the Guyana Goldfield’s Aurora Gold Project at Aranka Landing in Region Seven (Cuyuni/Mazaruni) by Minister Robert Persaud and a team from the GGMC. Arrangements to begin large-scale gold mining at this site are now being finalised for commencement by July 2015.

Thursday, August 28, 2014 is scheduled to be Customer Appreciation Day, an event to be held at the GGMC Headquarters in Brickdam, Georgetown.

A pre-Pork-Knocker Day exhibition is scheduled to be held on First Avenue, Bartica from 15:00 to 22:00 hrs on August 29th.

Pork-Knocker Day, the final event of Mining Week 2014, will comprise competitions in pork-knocking skills such as batelling, shovelling, jigging, tacouba crossing, warishi races and more.
This event will be staged on August 30 at the Regatta Pavillion at Golden Beach in Bartica, starting from 9am.

(Clifford Stanley)