The Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) has committed to develop the mining of Larimar and Amber under strict environmental, social and economic sustainable criteria in order to create a chain of value that benefits the miners, the artisans and the mining communities. During the celebration of the first anniversary of the National Larimar Day, Energy and Mines Minister Antonio Isa Conde said that the mining of these stones has to be a productive activity that is capable of sustaining itself, of taking the necessary decisions to protect the environment in benefit of the productive and of the generations that will follow.
Isa Conde said: “We cannot pretend to improve this activity based on a paternalistic vision of the state. Thinking that the state is the one who has the obligation to take care of everything and the producers remain as mere passive agents or receptors of state assistance.”
President Danilo Medina recently issued Decree 431-18, which orders the MEM to regulate, supervise, authorize and take care of everything relating to the exploitation, extraction, permits, processing and export of larimar and amber in a natural state or semi-processed.
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El Caribe
26 November 2018
