The 2017 social unrest in French Guiana was a series of protests and strikes led by the "Collective of 500 Brothers" to highlight the issues of insecurity and infrastructure in French Guiana, France It began on March 20, 2017 in Kourou, and spread all over French Guiana within a few days Several international rocket and satellite launches.
It has some recent news, too Columbus owns a 45% stake in the Montagne d'Or project in French Guiana Nordgold SE, a big Russia based gold mining company, funded a feasibility study at Montagne d'Or, so it now owns 55% Columbus will probably either sell its 45% stake to Nordgold, or it'll sell it to another gold mining company.
12 Top Rated Tourist Attractions in French GuianaRich in gold mining history, it offers both a wilderness experience and a chance to meet Amerindians and Brazilians, who make their home along its banks On the Approuague River, paddlers will find the highest rapids in French Guiana as well as pristine forests.Placer A Dieu Vat Weather Forecast, French GuianaWeekly Weather Report for Placer A Dieu Vat, French Guiana Looking at the weather in Placer A Dieu Vat, French Guiana over the next 7 days, the maximum temperature will be 34℃ (or 93℉) on Wednesday 28 th August at around 3 pm.The fight against illegal gold mining in French GuianaAug 29, 2017· In French Guiana, illegal gold mining has been thriving for decad Fuelled by clandestine workers from neighbouring Suriname and Brazil.Dragosaures Dredging for goldThis innovation was first applied to the mining industry in California in the 1870s, and then developed rapidly worldwide In South America alluvial gold dredging developed primarily in French Guiana, and to a lesser extent in Surinam and Guyana.Boris ChoubertBoris Choubert or Schuberth (1906 − December 3, 1983) was a French geologist An adept of Wegener's theory, he was the first to precisely reconstruct the layout of the continental masses of Africa, America, Europe and Greenland prior to the fragmentation of Pangaea, thirty years before the article generally credited for this discovery.HomeConsisting of an approximate 50 square km PER permit, the project covers the core of one of the most prominent placer gold mining districts in French Guiana currently exposed to illegal artisanal hard rock mining of high grade quartz gold veins The project area is interpreted to be underlain by prospective greenstone belt volcanic rocks.Reunion Gold Corporation\\ProjectsMar 02, 2019· The Dorlin Project consists of an 84 km2 Exploitation Permit for gold in the central west region of French Guiana, approximately 190 km SW of the capital Cayenne, within an area open to mining activity The Project is accessible by road, river and small fixed wing aircraft.Maroni RiverFor much of its 450 mile (725 kilometre) length the river divides French Guiana on the east from Suriname on the west Its upper course is known as the Litani in Suriname, or Itany in French Guiana; its middle course, along which there is placer gold mining, is called the Lawa, or Aoua Shallow draft vessels can penetrate 60 miles (100 km.French GuianaFrench Guiana (/ ɡ i ˈ ɑː n ə / or / ɡ i ˈ æ n ə /, French Guyane; French pronunciation ) is an overseas department and region of France, on the north Atlantic coast of South America in the GuyanasIt borders Brazil to the east and south and Suriname to the west French Guiana is the only territory of the mainland Americas to have chosen the full integration in an European country.Legal alluvial gold mining in French GuianaBut since the beginning of the 1990s French Guiana has seen an increase in gold mining due to rising gold prices on international markets, the development of new mechanised techniques imported from Brazil, and the fact that data from the Mining Inventory carried out by the BRGM on public land was made available to the public in 1996.French Guiana Environmental ProfileOverall, more than 90 percent of French Guiana is forested, about 95 percent of which consists of primary forest The country has some 1,064 known species of amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles, according to figures from the World Conservation Monitoring Centre Of these, 11 percent are endemic and 19 percent are threatened.