Appendix 1:
Websites with information on mining
companies or Indigenous rights
Here are the websites of some (but not all) of the mining and exploration companies that work in Guyana:
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U308 Corp (local company is Prometheus Resources. http://www.u308corp.com/
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Shoreham Resources. http://www.shoreham.ca/
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Infinito Gold. http://www.infinitogold.com/s/Home.asp
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First Bauxite Corporation. http://www.firstbauxite.com/
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Takara Resources. http://www.takararesources.com/
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Sacre-Coeur Minerals Ltd. http://www.scminerals.com/
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Guyana Goldfields Inc. http://www.guygold.com/
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There are many others!
The “news releases” or “press releases” on their websites usually have more up-to-date information than the
links that describe projects. Sometimes they also have documents called “corporate presentations,” which the
companies put out a few times per year. These are often complicated, but they can have good maps and talk about
future plans.
It can be hard to find information on some smaller exploration companies and some may not change their website
content fast enough to let us know the changes that are happening on the ground. Some other places to look are:
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SEDAR. Companies that are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange have to submit certain documents to
SEDAR. Go to this link http://www.sedar.com/issuers/issuers_en.htm and click the first letter of the name of
the company you are dealing with to see if there is information on them. Remember, this is information from
the company, so it won’t talk about complaints, but it might talk about their plans and how much money
they have to undertake those plans;
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A good way to keep up to date on information on a company when we don’t have access to a computer
every day is to set up a “google alert.” Google is a website that helps us search for information on the
Internet: http://www.google.ca/ If we set up a google alert, we can ask the computer to search for some key
words everyday even if we’re not on it, and then to send us an email with links to news reports. For example,
we could search for the words “Shoreham Resources” and “Guyana.” Go to http://www.google.com/alerts
We might get a lot of information so we should not use too many terms. We might have to set up an email
account with “gmail” (Google’s email program), but it is free.
Some websites that have information about Indigenous rights, mining, and other natural resource issues and
companies which communities have had problems with:
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Mines and Communities. Use the search bar on the left-hand side of the web page to type in the name of
the company and then click “Search.” The site also has some information on small-scale mining and climate
change. The address is http://www.minesandcommunities.org/
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MiningWatch Canada. Click “Company” on the right side of the main page to go to a list of companies they
have reports on. If the name of the company affecting our community is there, we can click on it for more
information http://www.miningwatch.ca/
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Business and Human Rights. This site lists reports about companies and from companies. It also has some
information on the standards that mining companies should follow. http://www.business-humanrights.org
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