Barrick Gold Corp said on Monday
it would form a joint venture with South America-focused Reunion
Gold Corp to explore the gold-rich Guiana Shield, which
covers parts of Guyana, Venezuela and northern Brazil.
A French court has rejected an urgent request by environmental groups including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth to deny oil and gas major Total permission to proceed with plans to drill off the coast of French Guyana.
Venezuela's government claimed victory on Saturday in a diplomatic quarrel with Latin American countries over a border dispute with Guyana, while ignoring an avalanche of criticism over President Nicolas Maduro's second term in office.
Seismic research vessels
hired by Exxon Mobil to explore for oil off Guyana's
coast have not returned to the site of a December incident with
Venezuela's navy, but they may in the future, Guyana's foreign
minister said on Thursday.
Seismic research vessels
hired by Exxon Mobil to explore for oil off Guyana's
coast have not yet returned to the site of a December incident
with Venezuela's navy, but they may in the future, Guyana's
foreign minister said on Thursday.
Guyana's government will challenge in court a parliamentary no-confidence vote that toppled President David Granger's ruling coalition amid a dispute over developing the country's nascent oil industry, the country's attorney general said on Thursday.
A man was caught at New York's JFK airport last weekend trying to smuggle dozens of South American finches into the country, a bird that Guyanese immigrants covet for chirping but officials fear could spread disease, officials said on Thursday.
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