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Get PriceGuyana s record with large scale gold mining is if anything even worse Commissioned in 1993 the Omai gold mine was a joint venture between Cambior Inc Canada 65% share Golden Star Resources USA 30% and Guyana s government 5% The mine became internationally notorious two years later when a tailings dam failed and 120 million
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